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Riot

On May 9, 2022 By jbdurnettIn Monday Coffee, Short Story SandwichLeave a comment

Halfway through the phone number, I lost my nerve and jabbed a single finger against the red button. I shoved my phone aside, but couldn't quite find the gumption to chunk the thing against the wall. I threw it against a pillow instead. A tiny second passed. A calm one. Because it was filled to …

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Never Going Away

On May 6, 2022 By jbdurnettIn Fri-losophy, Thoughts on WritingLeave a comment

The anonymous nature of writing helps me process. I write my feelings, I write my ideas, and I hope so much for my own skill to rise. I have high expectations. For myself. I've written many things just in the past year. The posts on this blog have helped me understand. Or, I've finally gotten …

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My heart races…

On May 4, 2022 By jbdurnettIn It's Poetry My Dude, Poetry on WednesdayLeave a comment

with every choice to live, to lie, to linger.with every thought in mind, to quell my racing heart. that never wants to be subdued. a flare in a maze,a drop on a dune,my heart races to always live, to never sleep,with every choice to breathe, to find my four directions,and find a line to follow.

Pandora

On May 2, 2022 By jbdurnettIn Monday Coffee, Short Story SandwichLeave a comment

When I found the weapon, I managed to rip it free. It stayed within my hands for a hundred years. It drank blood, it drank soul, and it chewed bone. I should be buried. Gone. But, their power became my flesh. My blood. My will to fight on. This living 'weapon' was mine. It had …

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Cenotaph

On April 29, 2022 By jbdurnettIn Fri-losophy, Random Poetry, Thoughts on WritingLeave a comment

Spotting one leopard spotWilted, the heart hurts, just trying to bloom belowthe snow, inside the shallowhall, adorned with red, blue, purple,black, yellow, green, light brown,wilted but never fading.

Grey matter

On April 27, 2022 By jbdurnettIn It's Poetry My Dude, Poetry on WednesdayLeave a comment

out along, outer rim, aloft on firerunning out of airask one and diewithout a drop turning scars to pillars and roots reignfrom rot, and brought to its kneesdotting theoutsideto be just enough

The Theta State

On April 25, 2022 By jbdurnettIn Monday Coffee, Short Story SandwichLeave a comment

Oryx flipped and dodged with the perfect poise of a talented dancer. He tiptoed while simultaneously flinging his legs enough to cartwheel and side flip as easily as breathing. His talent came in handy. It'd taken so long to show his companions that there was more to the Magnetic Oryx than most had heard. Agility, …

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Black and White

On April 22, 2022 By jbdurnettIn Fri-losophy, Thoughts on WritingLeave a comment

I can't choose. Even when there's a choice to be made. The only thing I ever know for sure. One side is black, the other white. Swirling until I decide on the future.

BLACK

On April 20, 2022 By jbdurnettIn It's Poetry My Dude, Poetry on WednesdayLeave a comment

through world after world, flashes of screens, cracks in fire,we fly, we fall, we see nothing but black,when sails unfurl, and the means to charge down,grafted by barbed wire, strewn to a wall,blight and wails, cries and mauling,we see nothing but black. we see nothing but waves of ruin,barrels of brew, to brush or doom,soon …

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Opening a Few Doors

On April 18, 2022 By jbdurnettIn Monday Coffee, Short Story SandwichLeave a comment

The group was prepared. She'd explained in endless detail that she would turn to stone by the morning. The first tinge of light started a chain reaction. Her insides were attacked by magic like a rabid parasite took over. Her skin bleached white, and then became dotted and overcome by cement-like stone. She'd placed her …

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