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Right On Track
Sometimes it hiccuped just when her mind wandered, and would trip her nearly clean over. Once she even fell flat on her face, and got such a fright she was actually sick, right there on the path. It never hiccuped again.
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Out Of Time
It was so calm in fact that as soon as he’d pushed his boat out, past the gentle lap lapping of an abominably lazy ocean smacking the shore like a sloppy tongue, the only sound he could hear was his oars digging into the water, a little motor chug chugging like a growling puppy behind the boat.
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Transition
Dingo’s belly was stirring with something big. Something brutal. A hunger than expanded even as it drew inwards. The vacuum of a black hole reaching out with eager fingers to ensnare all within its grasp.
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The Harmonica and the Bee
Bee was transfixed as the beautiful melodies floating around him, his wings flipping him over in excited little flips every so often. When the saggy face finished his tune, he smiled, as a tear fell gently from his eye.
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The turtle and the dragon
For the first time since he could remember, all the cells in his body relaxed into each other. Warmth permeated through his shattered form. And he felt the ultimate release. Of relinquishing control. Of letting go.
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Blue Lotus Dreaming
Moons passed as the seed lay actively dormant, waiting for a perfect place to grow. And one day it appeared, quite suddenly so that for a moment it took the woman’s breath away.
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Amooshka Aliooshka
She goes hippety-clonk right down the main street With warts on her fingers and moles on her feet
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On the edge
A distant moon blown off course and hanging askew in the sky like a forgotten chandelier. Tiny gusts of breath sweeping dirt into a whirlpool when they could be bothered to exhale.
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Gateway
Others. Had she even known another? Ever? She couldn’t remember. And all the while as her shell grew and her body shrank, something kept her going. Something more.
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The Great Unrobing
For anyone to let themselves be seen in their entirety is indeed a brave thing. For it leaves one vulnerable and able to be rejected. And even more terrifying, it leaves no place to hide the awesomeness of ones’ power.
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‘Reassurance against a dark tide’ aka ‘The Sound of Life’
How small and invisible can one possibly become? How deep do I have to dig to get some peace? Is it deeper than a grave?
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Precipice
You can’t just fight against a system and dismantle it, because then people will have nothing, and people fear nothing more than the devil that they know.
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Viking Blood
What kind of infidelity of spirit is it that tears us away from our centre and refuses to let us back into our own soul temple until we prove our self-worth?
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Reflections on Bali
History class was dealt out with the emotional content of a brick, art study was a laborious rote intake of names and dates and cities, and English was all Ps and Qs with no curls.
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Gloom
What's in your kindling Why are you dwindling Setting your cage alight Who would have thought you'd Kiss you dreams goodbye
