How would Shay describe the observatory brouhaha?
Pageantry.
Chuck was a jerk but that was somewhat incidental.
All the trash in the solar system obscures so much now, and for people like Jansen, wealthy eco-warrior, Chuck didn't take it seriously enough.

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Karkadann were the most fearsome desert creatures. Thundering hooves, razor-sharp teeth, horns they used to impale prey. Yet the young caregiver-in-training looked on them with

"Look how big you're getting," the boy said, tossing meat to a young one.

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hate, like love
would be a long out affair
the hurt & the pain would singe
at the surface, first
& then seep in
s l o w l y
years of sweetness
(how forced it was at times)
replaced by irrepressible bitterness
our hate, like our love
would be an affair
to remember

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see you broken
at edges
face
lack of space
on lifes ledges
race torn
I see the hustle
and in it
synergy rainbows spirit
to masterpiece
life’s puzzle
that wedges
in beats
in energy's sandstorm
frequency flushed
in flourish of future
as own art form

🎧▶️ 1/2

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His face splits apart into an unnerving, impossibly toothy grin. His pupils widen as his high-pitched, howling laughter out.

Mina realizes this wayward traveler she's taken in is not human, but a bouda. A hyena in disguise, fangs bared, lunging for her throat.

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I throw fireballs at them. They surround me. I cannot summon fire fast enough to kill them all.

My magic is for offense. I need defense. Threads of fire spring from my fingertips, forming rings around me. A shield of fire. I raise my hands. They back away.

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Flaring rings of
crimson splendor
cradling Spring’s lingering,

frilly carnations in
rubescent ecstasy,

calling us to
colour the twilight
in ruby-red euphoria.


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Castaway, I starve on a diet of raw barnacles, believing in nothing but miserable death. A mermaid shows me how to blast thunder from conch shells & cull light from starfish, but joy overtakes me only when my bones learn to harmonize w/her wind-song.

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Peacemakers

History can a graceful peace where the presence of strength & shines down before the early dawn—leaving behind a river of rain once gone. Never did they stand for mediocrity—for only fools for hypocrisy.✍️🏽#bravewrite

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We sit by the still lake on a languorous afternoon & our reflections discuss stories close to our hearts.
The tales include tidbits from our pasts–nighttime soirees with friends, kisses shared in moonlight, promises inked on pebbles.
Those were some beautiful days.

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Evening
Is my special time
Reserved
For UFOs

I seek
Opportunities
To them
Come and go

Armed with steaming
Home baked goods
I charge their
Eerie glow

Hoping they
Appreciate
The love
I try to show

Hate to start
A shooting war
O’er mistook
Casserole
M m be

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A distorted of herself, flashes before her eyes. Green hair. Red - and something else.

Jack blinks. "Vera?"

"Analysis complete. The time-space anomalies we're seeing is a of this entire planet, Jack.

Jack shivers. "Talk about an experiment."

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Past Life

True beauty is a that shines from within like an smile of what's to come that has already been. So, when the of stars far away & distant shine in admiration—it’s a pure & subtle sign from a past life connection✍️🏽#bravewrite

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I planned this.

Humanity? A stain upon the galaxy.

Now, with such reliance on technology,it's child's play to signals,and insert subliminal messages to self-#sacrifice.

The is delicious.

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As I knelt
Pure and innocent
At the chancel rail
The host held high
I was a first communion fail
I forgot my ‘amen’
The whole church hushed
Lost my chance for a golden halo
My angel wings would be dust



🎨 Melon-Cat

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Siren

Her spirit seems to the of her future endeavors like a wound that never healed—passing in the ocean tides with charm and consequences—of prideful pirates once concealed—and sirens injured not yet revealed.✍️🏽

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I toss in smells of apricots and plumes
the Hand of Fatima takes off my veils
your forehead sinks into the sweat of lovers
who sever their veins
oh, dreams of the unknown
you
latency
the sigh of blood that freely flows
in spring both mud and flowers grow



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Writing from darkness
of exile
looking through windows
without any sheen
Albeit a glow
in the distance
beckons to wisdom
in the form
of a dream



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After Aza nearly died delivering her first child, she started collecting figurines.

"I had a vision of a hippo during my near-death experience," she explained to her husband. "Taweret is an Egyptian hippo goddess who protects women in childbirth."

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