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Ray Bradbury Came to Me in A Dream And Told Me He Would Hit Me With His Car if I Didn’t Write More

Ray Bradbury Came to Me in A Dream And Told Me He Would Hit Me With His Car if I Didn’t Write More

I recently came to know a beautiful young woman. With a smile cold and blue as an iceberg. In its infancy, I had hoped our encounter to be born under the auspices of great Romance. Much to my dismay, I soon found myself mistaken. Her interest, though perhaps as physical as mine, was business-like. A professional it would seem, though not quite of the consummate variety. And as the weight of her shrewd bargaining fell to me with all the…

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Tragedy of the Thistle

Tragedy of the Thistle

I’ve been reading a bit of Keats recently, and while the first half here sounds nothing like him, I feel that the two poems together would fit within his works. There are a number of capitalization, meter, and punctuation inconsistencies within the second poem and they are somewhat intentional. Regardless, hope you enjoy. -WellTree Thistle’s Winter Request I need a lover like the summer,one that lives to melt a frozen heart.I need a love that makes me wonder,how I’ll survive…

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Resolution of a Forgotten God

Resolution of a Forgotten God

While I plan to continue rounding up old notes and reviewing interesting ideas, my initial goal with this blog was to get comfortable with creative writing to ease back into a larger world-building project I’ve had on the back-burner for years now. The working name for the project I have in my head currently is “Wardens of the Wyrd”. This poem is just a bit of color for the reader looking into the mechanics of how a certain piece of…

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