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Swallowing Light Bulbs
July 9, 2007 in 299 Words, Fiction, Flash Fiction, language, Literature, Short stories, Stories, Very Short Novels, Writing | Tags: Destiny, language, Performance | by davidbdale | 14 comments
He wasn’t always the man who swallows light bulbs. He did at one time have an act. Like many others, it amounted to filling in blanks: an adjective noun of noun and adjective noun, it verbed across the noun when the noun was adverb, but when it fell, it fell like a load of bricks. Read the rest of this entry »
Our Compass
January 27, 2007 in 299 Words, Books, Flash Fiction, language, Literature, novels, Poetry, reading, Short stories, Stories, Very Short Novels, Writing | Tags: Animal, Dystopia, Fear, Love, Mercy, Survival | by davidbdale | 5 comments
Three directions you must know: Out, Too Deep, and the slightly curved Goodness that extends forever and gives our lives meaning. Out is the direction of peril and food. Too Deep is oblivion. Some can be brought back from the deep, but they come back as food.
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