The backing singers

copyright: Lesley Tara, 2009 It had been a long, frustrating afternoon in the recording studio. Darya Jones was making her first solo album, and things were not going well. She had been a leading member[…]

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Family hierarchy

Browsing through the items all neatly layed out, Jessica looked each object over with a thorough precision. Indeed, they seemed quite novel as far as her world’s concerned. Never before had the twenty one year[…]

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The ad

After having read it for the third time, Danny shoved it into the envelope and dropped it through the mail slot. For better or worse it was on it's way now. The "it" was and[…]

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The evil dead

It was the seventh day of her journey back home. Kaylee, a black women barely considered twenty one was wearing the only thing she had clean. A tight blue dress that stopped halfway up her[…]

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A cousins christmas

This was a cold night on the over the weekend of christmas. The night after christmas this year was special because of the events that was set into motion before me. There was a tradition[…]

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When it begins

The anticipation The sickly Distorted Painful Anticipation Every night we sit together Him on his couch Me on mine I watch him Twitching Switching channels I slouch I swear he doesn’t Even notice Me twitching[…]

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No pda…

The Navy sounded like a perfect solution. The perfect solution for getting away from parents that were divorced and arguing over custody, that is. The perfect solution for that moment in time. I had no[…]

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