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Things People Have Said to Me: 2
You wondered if I would like you, I more than like you. I love you. I love you with every part of me in the sky, in my mind, and in my soul wherever it is.…
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Things People Have Said To Me: 1
It's like I've thought of something like this before, Not with you, but not without you. D.
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The Gemstone
A SHORT STORY I saw the building’s facade and bent my head back to find its apex. I don’t know why. The sun flooded into my eyes—blinding me for a moment. I r…
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A Month of Milk
A SHORT STORY 1902 Ebatha Snoke moved slowly and with conviction as she walked toward the door to her small barn; it was swollen, creaking with weight. Ea…
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Six-Word Story: Fairytale 3
A SIX-WORD STORY Nightmares divine stories until Miser's Death.
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Six-word Story: Fairytale 1
A SIX-WORD STORY The Labyrinth was my father . He was a cruel girl.
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Blank Verse #5 (or, 'Colleen, the Jellyfish')
A BLANK-VERSE POEM Dancing like a clock ticking in the window, On the door, rapping in silhouettes, In black diamonds, downstairs, on the floor,
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How to Make Pasta Salad
A FREE-VERSE POEM Feta, I need lots of feta in the salad to drive Down the line of aromas and articulate My speech upon another line, or two
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Blank Verse #4 (or 'The Merman')
A BLANK-VERSE POEM Brown skin, like mine, of bread was eaten, like Punch, like fruit. Turpentine. In its descent, The bird—a fine man—the pocked, the smea…
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Blank Verse #3
A BLANK-VERSE POEM The cat-man of a fairytale, the galaxy Man, raw Saturn’s smile, or the last fire— The wolfman, my old father, kidnapped me Within holy, …
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Blank Verse #2 (or '5')
A BLANK-VERSE POEM Drunk-aware, Its Bimbo—the heir —the ironic Devil- red; it gallops slowly onward On its cusp of draping, blackest adders; The Ziz , elde…
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Blank Verse #1
A BLANK-VERSE POEM ‘Play fair,’ was said to It , to her , but not By her mother—her agent breast. By teeth, By fur, by opulent eyes. Mastery.
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Light on a String
A SHORT STORY It was raining when he got up to look outside. He faced the window. From the corner of his eye, he caught his hazy, half-reflection. It seem…
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Smoke on the Girl
A SHORT STORY There was a cat in the bar that day. It lay down on a high booth resting the barrel of its chest on its arms. It swung its tail back and forth …
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- Blaire Boston
- Blaire Boston is a writer and graphic designer living on the East Coast, USA. She writes literary fiction, short stories, and poetry.