Category: Posts
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No Road
by Steven Cuffari An old poetry teacher of mine once said Fill every line of verse with pendant dread The thickness of the text should stick like dry sand In throats just moist, thirsting, reaching a hand. What she really said was I’m a terrible poet, bland She had a way of talking in a…
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October. Feeling
by Steven Cuffari Here starts the fallBut it came a couple weeks agoBut that’s the way it feels.It’s an October feelingOut with the oldRaking and sweepingDusting he ghosts in our machinesAnd outside our selvesOur bodies are our soulsIt’s the beginning of the end and that makes us all feel cozy. If we don’t make it…
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Broken Clocks
by Steven Cuffari Broken clockshave their saytwice a dayWhat a shamespinning handsfroze in stategears are jammedin their placeBroken mindsBroken heartsHow manymissing ticksmissing tocksCan we sufferBefore we clocksare brokeasunder?
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Beat the Devil
by Steven Cuffari Inspired by Sammy Why’d he do it? That’s always the question. To answer it would ruin the story. Any good story follows a path littered with bodies. And like any good story, this one is ruined by its most interesting character. This one had tattooed a QR code on the left cheek…
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November 2017
by Steven Cuffari 1 This is not a journal, although it was intended to be. I received it almost a year ago. Please forgive me for the somewhat meandering nature of what I am about to write. I do not know my audience, and I do not know if you are it. I do not…
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Something’s Looming
The author looms above his pageand thinks it’s strange that at his agehe cannot find the proper wordsto describe his only worldOne would think that in a lifewhere no two snowflakes are alikeone would have a brilliant rhymefor each and every bit of time From “The Yeti” on the album The Elephant Riders by Clutch…
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While they were gone…
Write a story that begins or ends with a page that starts with “While x was gone…” For example While Mary was gone, John concealed a golden pin inside Mary’s desk. This pin would be the cause of etc., etc., etc. This is the beginning of the story. While John was gone, Mary slipped a…
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Loss of senses…
Write a story about a person who loses their senses. It could be one, more or all of their senses. The story should start in the middle of things (in media res). In other words, they have already lost their senses. Try to write about the setting in terms of their memories or their remaining…
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A beginning, a middle, and an end…
Write a story that begins with a tragedy, but not a death. The middle of the story should contain a climax where the main character sits face-to-face with their sworn enemy who is allegedly responsible for the tragedy. The end of the first part of the story should show the main character resolving their conflict…