AEParker007

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"Dead Lands Noir (4)"

by AEParker007

The ledge was thick enough for me to stand well under, and I shrank back beneath the window. The rain was well and truly coming down, and it curled around the edge of the stone, dripping down onto me as I trie...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 347 views | General | August 22, 2018

"Dead Lands Noir (3)"

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Peter vanished completely. I went home a few days later and found our apartment almost as we’d left it when I went into labor. There were two things missing: Peter’s old military rucksack, and his guns. A lot of guns. I couldn’t a...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 330 views | General | August 16, 2018

"Dead Lands Noir (2)"

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(Part 1) I looked around at the chaos. Our fight had sent our plates onto the floor. I looked down at my neglig...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 289 views | General | August 13, 2018

"Dead Lands Noir (1)"

by AEParker007

When the four returned to La Garrison, Aloha unlocked the door, walking through with a sigh. She hung up her coat, wincing as the fabric pulled at the wounds laid on her by the clown. As she turned to go...

1 Like | 3 comments | 366 views | General | August 9, 2018

"Crag"

by AEParker007

OH, JUT TING CRAG SHAD OW on the purple bay ! ((No heat lightning though)) AN AUGUST AVOCADO all green and smooth in the long rain WHY ARE RED-BLACK BERRIES on the table, there's thunder outside ?...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 458 views | Poetry | August 4, 2018

"Two images, then one"

by AEParker007

A bag is not a watermelon. A fake leg is not a piece of trout. A piece of trout is not a clear plastic pint of brown & green kiwi. A red candle is not an apple. A picture is not a picture. But a word A word is both essential and g...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 436 views | Poetry | July 30, 2018

"Tales from the Dead Lands (End)"

by AEParker007

The next morning, the four presented themselves at Katherine Bradley’s doorstep with their story and evidence in hand. She listened carefully and sighed with relief as they told her how they’d destroyed...

0 Likes | 1 comment | 321 views | General | July 24, 2018

"Tales from the Dead Lands (9)"

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Rose tried to call her friends but couldn’t make a sound. It was Marion who noticed her peril, as she turned away from the room Kateri had entered. “Rose!” she leapt into the room, Abie hot on her heels, a tomahawk already in her ha...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 369 views | General | July 19, 2018

"Tales from the Dead Lands (8)"

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As the doctor closed his door, they heard the sound of the sliding bolt when he turned the lock. “We’re not going to go back to the hotel, are we?” Marion asked....

0 Likes | 2 comments | 379 views | General | July 15, 2018

"Tales from the Dead Lands (7)"

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Abie launched herself onto the spit of roof in front of their balcony and carefully let herself down onto the awning over the walkway. She dropped to the ground and immediately sprinted after the shadow in h...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 338 views | General | July 9, 2018

"Tales from the Dead Lands (6)"

by AEParker007

The others followed suit carefully. The tea was very good. They made some idle small talk about travel and weather, Katherine becoming agitated when the discussion got more serious or turned to work. “I...

2 Likes | 1 comment | 367 views | General | July 6, 2018

"Tales from the Dead Lands (5)"

by AEParker007

“There, now that we’re friends,” Kateri offered him a reassuring look. “How have you performed this miracle, Sheriff?” “‘T’weren’t me,” he said mode...

1 Like | 1 comment | 361 views | General | July 3, 2018

"Tales from the Dead Lands (4)"

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(Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)...

1 Like | 0 comment | 372 views | General | June 29, 2018

"Tales from the Dead Lands (3)"

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(Part 1) (Part 2) Abie was shaking her head slowly. “I do not tr...

1 Like | 2 comments | 343 views | General | June 27, 2018

"Tales from the Dead Lands (2)"

by AEParker007

(Part 1) They made good time to Langton. The wagon rolling through the dusty streets attracted some stares from passersby. Stopping...

1 Like | 4 comments | 382 views | General | June 22, 2018

"Tales from the Dead Lands (1)"

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The beast stepped carefully through the deep woods, heedless of the brambles and sharp branches that brushed roughly against its thick wiry coat. It hungered for meat and blood this night, and its prey was e...

1 Like | 4 comments | 573 views | General | June 18, 2018

"Cold Drinks in the Desert"

by AEParker007

I wrote this piece as a freshman in University in response to a writing prompt our professor gave us. I matched the rhythm-scheme (?) to the Odyssey as it is written in English. Circe, to Odysseus Son of Laertes,...

1 Like | 1 comment | 254 views | Prose | June 11, 2018

"A Morning Monologue"

by AEParker007

Is this coffee which I see before me, The cup near my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I scent thee still. Art thou not, happy vision, sensible To feeling as to sight, or art thou but A java of the mind, a fal...

2 Likes | 1 comment | 358 views | Humor | June 11, 2018