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....I have had a change of heart, my 57 year old heart and that is that I might surrender something about myself.I am homeless. I suffer from chronic depression and PTSD. I am heavily medicated, living in NE Ohio in a town that is slowly going to Hell...except

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Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Madness: 33 of 183

...swimming to the moon would be easier than loving her. Something inside her was broken and scattered; bare bones long since picked clean by the carrion birds of the capricious twentieth century now gone. When ,with me alone ,she showed the happy inner child, wrapped in bright ribbons of joy and wonder, chasing fireflys and...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Moments that change your life: 47 of 222

Fate of the Rose ...sometimes,when something I have wanted for a while happens, it is still had to accept with any sort of "grace"; like it being January and 55 degrees outside and the tulips having convinced themselves that its spring. I see on TV that the cherry blossoms in DC suffer the same misconception, a full 90 days ...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Facing death: 2 of 6

....the rain had gone from verticle to horizontal, lashed by the monsoons dancing across the Gulf of Tonkin, hunting every last dry spot on your body regardless of how deep or how much clothing you put around it. It also didn't help that I was lying in two feet of rice paddy bilge, trying to keep my sight clear and my rifle ...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Pain from love: 295 of 838

Postmarked: Special Delivery ...sometimes free like postage to the Dead Letter Office, I dream of your unguarded male chute; hoping you'll awaken to find that its plugged up; stuffed shut with all the junk mail of your 4th. class love.
Religion & Spirituality > Religion & Spirituality (Other) Is there an element of fiction in religion: 2 of 5

....even though the root word for religion comes from the Greek and means 'the binding together', what is religion but another man's superstition? The answer to the question is so utterly obvious that what I will try to do here is explain how 'fiction' came to be an absolute for religion, indeed in the social and collective ...
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Self-reflection: 195 of 298

Tripanasona Rickasitsia.....Upon the eve of St. Crispins Day, I mixed fresh garlic,fresh basil,fresh thyme,rosemary, and oregano into a 2lb. plastic tub of real butter.The following day I bought a loaf of real sourdough bread and a jug of deep red wine. ....Just now this evening I have cut off the wrapper, picked up the loaf...
Entertainment > Movie News & Previews Should William Shatner return as Captain Kirk in the new Star Trek movie?: 15 of 22

....oh my God; has it come to this already? It is not bad enough that all Government, City,State, and Local, agencies seem to have taken the movie "Brazil" or " Slaughter House Five" to base their office politics upon, but here comes the man who has singly redefined the condition of "Self Importance" to a legendary altitude....
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Childhood memories: 229 of 292

...it is gray and sunless for my fifth Christmas, the snow like tiny slivers of slate pinning themselves to every branch and bush.Springfield, Ohio; can it really be half a century ago? Have grown so old that I can count the time, no longer in mere decades but in a fraction of centuries? Preserve your memories, Paul Simon se...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Unusual encounters: 185 of 207

Death Among the Iris In the summer of 1964, my father exploded my world by telling us we were going to move from Ohio to California.I hated him for that for many,many years.No stranger to the changing flow of cause and effect, or my father's penchant for moving his family once a year from 1952 to 1957,all in quest of some "v...
Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Spicy food stories: 17 of 19

....Never Try This at Home,EVER! ....since the moment, when I was six, that my mother explained that it was oregano that made pizza "taste like pizza", I have been a dedicated proponent of fresh herbs and spices in all of my culinary explorations. before I moved into my current apartment, every year for the past 35, I had an...