The Dogs: Litany - Episode II

            It was a five minute drive, probably less, and at that hour of the evening, barely six and everything closing for the day, it should have taken them less, but no - Bligh's Ranger was out of gas, he was going to fill up Monday, but tonight...

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Rat Prince: Act I

Rat PrinceAct IAffirmant quidam inueniri aliquando rattum cæteris maiorem, procerior & latiore corpora qui à cæteris otiofus alatur. Rattorum regem, appellant._________ Konrad Gesner, Historiæ Animalium            It was just to take his mind off...

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The Dogs: Litany - Episode I

            It was very late afternoon that Sunday, the September Sun languid and broken through the blinds, and Andrew was in the kitchen, cutting up chicken for a dinner, on the bamboo board he had bought at Publix the last time he had gone there...

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How Shadows Taste (reupload)

Must your light like mine be hidden, Your young life like mine be wasted, Undone in mine undoing, And ruin'd in my ruin, Thirsty, canker'd, goblin-ridden?_________ Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"             It gets dark out here at night,...

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Upriver

_They say he still wears clothes, but he'll take to the water soon._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ H.P. Lovecraft, "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" _August_ - that time of the year when a stillness descends on the land, after the panicked fever-fires of July...

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Ursa Minor

_Bears sleep by day. At night they stay awake to chase away bad dreams._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Jesse O'Neil February in western Virginia is the time of the thaw - the weather becomes finer and warmer and the careless tossings of Winter's wrath become...

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Rat Prince: Act III

**Act III** _Should you a Rat to madness tease_ _Why ev'n a Rat may plague you..._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Recantation" Dark as it was, he was sure it was him... ...the thick-rimmed glasses set in the owl-like face,...

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Rat Prince: Act II

**Act II ** _Ruinis inminentibus musculi praemigrant._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Pliny the Elder, _Naturalis Historia_ It had been three days - had it been so long? He was there again, back where it all started, laying on the hardwood floor of the...

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Rat Prince: Act I

**Act I ** _Affirmant quidam inueniri aliquando rattum c __æ__ teris__maiorem, procerior & latiore corpora qui à cæteris otiofus alatur. Rattorum regem, appellant._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Konrad Gesner, _Historiæ Animalium_ It was just to take his...

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Nervous Boys

_The innocent mansion of a panther's heart! It crumbles, tick-tick time drags it in Till now his arteries lag and now they start Reverence with the frigid gusts of sin. ** ** _ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Allen Tate, "Idiot" _Caleb was his sin and Caleb...

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Hecho En Florida

_He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ George Orwell, _Animal Farm_ Anyone who has travelled that part of I-4 from Tampa to Orlando - a...

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Forests of the Noonday Sun (Collab With Xax)

_Why, let the stricken deer go weep,_ _The hart ungalled play;_ _For some must watch, while some must sleep:_ _So runs the world away._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ William Shakespeare, _Hamlet_, Act III, Scene ii West of Asheville the Appalachians rise...

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