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Released 2011-03-13 19:02:43 -0400

All my pieces of the wordy persuasion.

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My twin brother is studying to be a scientist. What sort of scientist, I can't quite tell you. All I know is that it has to do with very teeny-tiny things, and he's extremely concerned with ho...

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2011-01-30 15:23:19 -0500
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(I know we were supposed to write more verses but, well, oops. I've never been good at following directions, plus this idea wouldn't leave me alone. Those are my excuses and I'm sti...

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2011-02-15 13:30:42 -0500
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In tonight's news,
A plane crashed over Arkansas, killing everyone aboard
The Dow Jones is down twenty-five points
And there is a tsunami bearing down on Jakarta

Police...

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2011-03-07 13:41:44 -0500
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My best friend has more genealogy than she knows what to do with.  Growing up, I’d hear her tell me about her giant, ancient family, I’d hear her complain that she couldn&rsqu...

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2011-02-26 22:39:40 -0500
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My heart deemed you mine in the bravest of moments


Moments when fluorescence was all that I saw


And beyond your face...

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2011-02-06 12:08:51 -0500
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The first thing Jake was asked after his girlfriend drowned was how he felt.

"Well," he always said with a sigh, "I think this will put a real damper on our relationship."

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2010-11-28 17:06:12 -0500
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Because I have, in the course of today, spazzed at about five patient yet probably long-suffering different people about this, including Wirrow, I figure I should just write this all out, on the...

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2011-03-19 18:52:44 -0400
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I promise when you really see me for the first time
That something in your chest will stutter and jump-start,
That when you blink, I'll still be there -
Sweaty palms, crooked smil...

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2011-03-23 16:27:16 -0400
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When you're a twin and one of three kids, it's inevitable your parents come up with superlatives to define you from your siblings. I was a lot of things; the verbal one, the stubborn one, the fu...

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2011-04-21 20:01:06 -0400
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The thing about you, kid - can I call you kid? - is that you're fucking heartbreak from start to finish. There's nothing that hurts more than watching someone grow up. It's like, you ever see ...

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2011-04-26 12:38:05 -0400
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fuck but you're gorgeous
and i want i
want things that
are heavy and
warm and things i
can't name so i
watch the space
between your fingers
which i...

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2011-04-30 15:42:14 -0400
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Who the fuck gives two fucks about wheelbarrows and plums, is what I want to know, because apparently there's this cocksucker named William Carlos Williams who thinks that he should write po...

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2011-05-12 02:19:34 -0400
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"I think I could use a vacation," the pepper mill said to the salt shaker. "I'm just so tired of the daily grind."

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2011-05-25 13:48:08 -0400
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All fires begin with a spark.


All sparks begin with friction, two pieces of something hard and unmoving that don't fit together, but strain to, yearn to wear themselves down. They pu...

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2011-05-27 13:59:42 -0400
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Bob Newhart had dreamed about the stars since he was a little boy. He used to stare out his window for hours, too enthralled to go to sleep, only to nod off later in class.


Despite h...

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2011-05-29 21:18:25 -0400
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Hyuck, hyuck, hyuck.


This was a pun/tiny story I'd doodled out an illustration for about five or six years ago, which I found while thumbing through old sketchbooks. I re-did the drawings to look nicer, laid it out, and voila! I would say this is the worst pun I've ever made, but it's not even the worst pun I've made in the last 24 hours.


Also, I know, I know, the Tiny Book of Tiny Stories is in black and white, but I really wanted this one to have color. If this actually gets selected, I'll go back and re-work it.

2011-06-18 18:13:16 +0200
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When TIME posted the magazine assignment to hitRECord, I was, oddly enough, not at my computer. Instead, I was on my annual vacation to a YMCA family camp, where one of the nightly activities wa...

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2011-09-04 00:27:05 -0400
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(GUY and GIRL are sitting next to each other at the Fall Formal. They both are clearly alone. It should be clear that they are interested in each other, but both are far too self-conscious...

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2011-09-28 14:05:50 -0400
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Second draft of  this script. Psalmist and DianeFT did a great reading of this, but hearing it pointed out a lot of weaknesses I didn't notice the first time around. So here it is, re-wor...

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2011-10-24 15:54:25 -0400
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"I have to go soon."

"Sucks."

"Yeah, I - no. Never mind."

"What?"

"It's gonna sound stupid."

"You always sound stupid."

"I was ...

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2012-03-02 16:59:45 -0500
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"What would you like to talk about in our session, today?"

"Do you want the right answer, or the truth?"

"I'd like to hear both the truth and the right answer, but I always...

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2012-03-02 19:37:27 -0500
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When it comes to the idea of rape culture, there are certain things everyone, including myself, can agree on. Everyone agrees that women shouldn't be raped. Everyone agrees that wom...
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2012-03-21 16:19:55 -0400
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