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what people will see wrote about the word iron 2 years, 1 month ago
By the time I was 2,000 miles away from home, the singed flesh had already crusted over. He traced the raised burns with his fingertips and laughed at my story about how I had managed to confuse my thigh for a wrinkle. “What were you doing ironing a duvet cover in your underwear anyway?” I [...]
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what people will see wrote about the word styrofoam 2 years, 1 month ago
White debris swells in soft bellies, pinning sea turtles to the surface of the ocean. Poor scattered shell-backed fishing buoys bobbing lonely on the salt.
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what people will see wrote about the word thirst 2 years, 2 months ago
Friday night you could say I was thirsty, but I didn’t drink what hydrated me. Saturday morning hurt my eyes so that’s why I took a walk through my graveyard. I discovered founders buried there and collected the chipped candle wax scattered in the dirt. I brushed the dirt from their tombstones and traced my [...]
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what people will see wrote about the word integrity 2 years, 2 months ago
I’ve never totally understood the word integrity, but whenever I hear it used I just think – “morally upright.” And then I think of my father. When he used to tell me to “do the right thing” and “make good choices” I would roll my eyes and say yeahyeahsure before skipping out the door. He’s [...]
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BAHHAHAHAHAHAH! God I love this! That is something that I would do…. I may actually have done that before. I wasn’t ironing a duvet though, I was ironing the outfit I was going to wear, which consequently was why I was in my underwear.