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A Tale Of One Night

I had knelt a long time at my parents' grave. A sudden gush of grief had seized me, taken my thoughts away, and when I found back to reality my knees where stiff and the sun had already met the horizon. I stood up and walked towards the exit of the cemetery, but I didn't feel like going home already, and as the air was still warm, I sat down on a wooden bench under an old weeping willow.
My thoughts trailed off again. Suddenly I noticed a young woman who came out of the path opposite my place. She came to the bench and silently sat down next to me. I looked at her. She was very thin and pale, with blond hair that seemed almost wh

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Wooed with wordsI could be wooed with words; I know I could. I can’t think of a thing I could not forgive If you wrote me a sonnet the way Will would... If through words you would make me live. If you were a master of metre and rhyme I would be at your feet in a beat. Make me dance to your song, make me keep your time, Let your words be the drug that I need. If you sang an elegy like Poe on my grave, I believe I would die for you. And whatever abuse and bad words you gave, If you rhymed them, I’d love them, too. Spread a blanket of blank verse over my eyes It would cover Wooed with words
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So There She LaySo there she lay, her porcelain skin pale against the dark linen. Her eyes were closed, as if to seal off her thoughts from his gaze, blond lashes like curtains over the windows of her soul. He leaned at the door, sweetening his steaming coffee with her image. There had only been enough for one cup, but he knew she wouldn’t mind, he knew she wouldn’t have wanted coffee anyway, even if he had asked, even if she’d been awake.
He had to smile. Wasn’t it strange how intimately he seemed to know her, already, after the first night they had ever spent together? But it had always been like that. There were people wit So There She Lay
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A Letter of GoodbyeI am watching you... You cannot see me, but I can see you through this colourful nothing of a silk curtain. I am watching you while I am crouching on the floor, writing this letter – my last one. I have always watched you when you were down there, talking to your friends and business associates. Women see more than men can know, and I have learned more about you by watching silently than by talking to you. Men do not know how to talk to women. You either treat us as children or as another species – and we are neither. We are like you, only different.
And now I am watching you, as you gently stir the poison into my cup. A Letter of Goodbye
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HomesickLass sie nicht sehen, wie du blinzelst So sagte meine Mutter, sieh, warum Es mir unangenehm ist auszugehen wenn meine Augen trocken sind Ich habe kein Geschick mit Pinseln. Die Farben Trocknen aus und verschütten sich, glänzend wie Gischt auf den Felsen; Der Lehrer streicht mir den Schimmer weg Von den nackten Armen. Die Kinder flüstern
Hinter den Armen des Seesterns. Sie gehen zum Spielen In den sonnigen und warmen Garten, aber ich bleibe hier, wie Mama
Es mir gesagt hat. Unter dem Fenster ist ein Aquarium Voller goldener Fische, die umherjagen, ständig, Homesick
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Thu May 7, 2009, 11:48 AM

I have job!

A few weeks ago, I had an interview for the job that was made for me in the one and only city I want to live in, and today they told me I've got the job!

I'm so happy right now, I could hug a bus.

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Current Residence: Berlin, Germany
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Favourite movie: Gloomy Sunday
Favourite artist: rene magritte
Favourite poet or writer: Shakespeare. and Anne Rice.
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Favourite game: final fantasy
Favourite cartoon character: Spike (cowboy bebop)
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=Mattiello

Jan 25, 2009, 1:12:26 PM

Thank you so much for faving my tutorial, "How to Write Villanelles"! I truly appreciate the

on my first DD, and I'm happy that you took the time to read it.

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~iThemba

Jan 25, 2009, 2:28:50 PM

Oh no, thank you for writing it! I only hope that one day I'll have the guts to really try my hand at a villanelle. But if I do, I'll have to credit you.

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=Mattiello

Jan 25, 2009, 10:42:00 PM

That's sweet. I'd love to see it when you post it.

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*simplyprose

Jan 17, 2009, 4:50:24 AM

Thank you for adding 'Writing Paranormal Characters' to your favourites. We appreciate the support.

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