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Creative Writing > Satire Satire: Life: 2 of 57
An oddly assorted gaggle of elderlys clustered around the television ignoring the show attention otherwise engaged by countless fascinations afforded by the giant thermometer/barometer gleaming handsomely against the wall."Did you know the temperature just went down half a degree? It's now 57.5 in this corner of the room, win... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Dark Poems: 16 of 425
The hand of the goddesstouches the dark with quicksilver,her glittering eyean ice white diamond in the black night.Within the shroudof her implacable embraceawake the shadows,their shapes forever shifting,flowing together,slipping apart,phantasmagoric.At her altar of dreamsworship the imageslost in countless mirrors,their ref... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Imprisoned: 4 of 47
Fortunes fall, fates doomedEmpty hall, silent roomShadows long, muted criesShattered song, bloody skiesCold stone, damp groundWhite bone, death boundUnclaimedUnlamentedDefamedTormentedLost souls, wretched shadesBell tolls, memory fadesSenses fail, desire wanesColors pale, darkness reigns More..
Style & Beauty > Hair Color & Coloring Funky hair colors: 1 of 9
Ready to channel your inner wild child and funk up your hair? Well, just remember not to go too far and get too "funked" up. Unless you're a member of an underground band, a performance artist, an East Village inhabitant or just truly uninhibited, a full head of funky hues can send out conflicting messages that you may not be... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Loneliness: 79 of 580
"I am caught between the pages without numbers,in the spaces between the words,sucked through a syringeinto the heart of paper, seeping into each page.Indelible as a fingerprint.I dwell in a realm that stains the soul.Enter with caution. It is riddled with mines."Ink splashed across the page,blood from a wound that would alwa... More..
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Wuthering Heights: 1 of 5
Transforming Wuthering Heights into a movie has presented a challenge for film makers around the globe since 1920. The first movie was filmed in Haworth, West Yorkshire, the home of Emily Bronte. Billed as "Emily Bront's Tremendous Story of Hate", it was directed by A.V. Bramble and starred Milton Rosmer, a popular actor at t... More..
Style & Beauty > Clothes (Other) Why we dress the way we do: 1 of 5
Some clothes scream, some whisper. Some advertise, some are Sphinx-like. Just like people. And more times than not, you are what you wear.If you're an extrovert, you choose clothes that keep pace with your sense of self. Your personality runs on a high octane wow factor, so why should your clothes be left behind? Your outfit ... More..
Style & Beauty > Style & Beauty (Other) The dictatorship of fashion: 1 of 5
There is a peculiar irony in the phrase, "I'm a zero." My answer to that would be, "Well, you said it. I didn't." To be in fashion, one needs to be a perfect zero. Bones and skin. Perhaps, the next achievement will be to reduce each organ. All those unsightly bulges, after all. Rule Anorexia, the patron saint of starvation. A... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Dark soul: 17 of 84
Riding with the reaper.Rotting holes in phantom faces.Skeletal hands clutching at the wind.Twisting nightmares rising up from the road.The abandoned road that knows no map.A derelict threadunraveling through time.Seducing the rider with visions of danger.Faster and fasterspeeding on highin the wind.The headlight, a one-eyed v... More..
Sports & Recreation > Hunting Shed hunting: Enjoy the hunt without the kill: 1 of 4
Better shed than dead.Antler collecting without the kill. Best time tobone up on the fine art of this bloodless hunt is February.Observing the annual ritual of bucking off dead antlers isa matter a nature. Searching for, retrieving and displaying theshedded bounty is human nature. Peak time for some seriousshedding runs from ... More..