Tag: Shopping

• King of Dropolis

  11 Jan 2023

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  An anguished chill hurts the night kingthe moans of traffic dissect the interstatelonely bellows of travelers of midnight passageand me, well meI don’t really even know where I am, who I am, why I amsome windy, flattened palaceof stone and glass and flickering neonand I a statue filled with blood…

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  + Confessions, Creative Writing, Dark Dreams, Poetry, Time Machine

  + KFC, Metropolis, Mindless, Poetry, Shopping, Writing

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• Bite of the Oven Salesman

  2 Nov 2022

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  In a previous life I had been an oven salesman in Omaha spending my livid, blank days doling out shiny appliances and extended warranties to the innocents.

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  + Creative Writing, Fiction, Short Fiction, Short Stories

  + Doors, Fiction, Home Appliances, Jim Morrison, Nebraska, New Mexico, Omaha, Shopping, Short Story

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• Child of the Cabbage (Ep. 6)

  16 Jul 2022

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  It was the general Midwestern place found in the great picture book of the American dream, now dreamless. The homes ran in a row down each side of the boulevard, typical two-story architectural teeth erected by lost hands inside a broken jaw, darkened square windows of dusted glass looking out…

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  + Chiller, Creative Writing, Dystopian, Fiction, Serial Fiction

  + American Dream, Birth Certificate, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Consumption, Farm Guy, Fiction, Gluttony, Shopping, Starvation, Worship

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• Bucky the Horse and the Gods of Radiation (End)

  27 Jun 2022

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  The group emerged from the forest and onto the side of a broken and buckled road littered with debris. There were cars and trucks abandoned and now resting askew with skeletons at the wheel and other bags of bones trying to crawl out backseat windows. On the opposite side of…

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  + Fiction, Serial Fiction, Short Stories

  + Coffee, Fiction, Shopping, Starbucks, Strip Mall, Vacant Property

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• Orange Plush Peru

  26 Jun 2022

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  It’s such a bigger world than we realizewe tend to ignore the full scopeof all that is alive…while we’re busy shoppingsomeone else is starving,while we are walking down the aislesomeone else is in need of love,and when we are cryingsurely, someone else is crying harder. Andwhile we drive our carssomeone…

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  + Poetry and Prose, Social Comm

  + Cars, Global, Prose, Shopping, Television, Writing

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