May 2012
75 posts
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an 8 year old standing in front of a large crowd, struggling to articulate the choreography to the Single Ladies dance through his gas mask
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everything in your house gradually becoming translucent over the course of an hour
April 2012
22 posts
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Two Skinheads, sharing earbuds, secretly listening to New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’ on repeat.
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A mourning dove and a pigeon shaking hands awkwardly, each a little intimidated by the other
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A Mylar balloon of Christ crucified tangled in low hanging power lines, spinning.
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A father peeling away all the hands and feet from his family’s stick figure car decal
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A dream home: frame of bones, walled with skin, shingled with hair and teeth.
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A twelve foot tall baby towers, menacingly, over his tiny parents and laughs as they flinch.
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The cast of Designing Women visiting the set of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Dixie Carter, Annie Potts, and Meshach Taylor are in awe. Delta Burke and Jean Smart look bored. Alice Ghostley is not pictured.
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An old sienna leather couch, crow’s-feet crinkling as she smiles
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A regiment of half-eaten grilled cheeses gathering their dead and wounded from the battlefield.
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A CHILD IN A RACCOON SUIT SINGING TO HIS BUBBLEGUM BALLS AS HE BURIES THEM IN THE DIRT
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A TARANTULA-VOLTRON SLOWLY DISASSEMBLING INTO SEPARATE, INDIVIDUAL TARANTULAS AND HEADING TO THEIR LONELY HOMES
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A cache of nickels with sharp serrated edges, using the jostling created by your own movements to slowly saw their way through your pocket-cloth to freedom
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At the end of each branch of the white birch, a glowing green hand; they are all snapping their fingers, attempting to do so in unison
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A pryed open oyster with a little gold tooth inside
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A group of cheerleaders on a football field who have formed an upside-down human pyramid nearly 100 girls high, the audience screaming, the girls still & silent
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A bowl of Post Alpha-Bits with your name in it, the milk gradually turning black
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A VERY SMALL MAN WHO LIVES IN YOUR KITCHEN CUPBOARD AND WHO SMILES ENCOURAGINGLY WHEN YOU ACQUIRE YOUR BREAKFAST CEREALS
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A MEAN BAD CAT THAT IS SWALLOWING ALL YOUR NEIGHBORS, JUST NEIGHBOR AFTER NEIGHBOR; HE’S RELENTLESS. EVERYONE SHIVERING AT THEIR WINDOWS, WONDERING WHO’S NEXT
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A MAN CONSIDERING A RECENTLY ARRIVED LETTER INVITING HIM TO JOIN A “PRIVATE SPECIES” OF BEAR; HE STROKES HIS BEARD THOUGHTFULLY
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A baby elephant walking alongside a little crab on the beach at sunset
