Soonlight Monata

There are two types of guitarists in the world: those who play Stairway to Heaven and those who don't.

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Call Me Ishmael

When did "chipmunk voice" become something that was acceptable to do in music?

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Once An Assembly

HOWARD J. OXFORD, GORDON TROUSDALE, BETTY HOLLIMAN, LAWRENCE THOCETT

i was standing in the snow outside her house
hoping maybe she would come outside,
and need some help with something,
and see me there,
and call me over and,
well, i haven't thought that far ahead.
but as i stood there,
from behind me,
came a man who said to me
"Where I come from, girls like that are a dime a dozen.
You can try, but if you stay out here you might
catch a cold or somethin'"
"but look at her,
see the way she moves
and hear the way she sings."
"yeah, she's real nice but follow me.
i'll break her spell;
and set you free"


JOEL HAMMOND, ALICIA YUDEL, DUSTIN BRADBURN, WESLEY MANCHESTER, CLYDE EVERETT, LOUIS RUSSEL, VINCENT HERRING, NICOLE FAIRLEY

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Wild Language Born to Tell

 

The haze was perilous closing in, all fading light sinking earthward.

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Fragment of Untitled Prose

The bitter smell of coffee and the dry taste of slightly burnt toast: these things make up a perfectly mundane and monotonous beginning to a perfectly mundane and monotonous day. The coffee was too hot, had too little cream, and was probably sitting in its pot for a few hours before it had been hastily reheated and served. Next to it sat toast covered lazily in a spread of strawberry jam fresh from a tiny sealed packet on the counter. It tasted just like every other piece of toast consumed on every other day. It was chewed listlessly and swallowed, followed by only a few sips of coffee, leaving a third of the cup and a couple dollars on the counter for a tip.

This light breakfast was only the first stop in this assiduous schedule. The next would be the post office to mail a collection of bills, and then a walk several blocks in length to spend a couple dark hours cleaning the dusty crevices of an elevator shaft. Afterward would be a journey to the florist to pick up one dozen gerbera daisies to deliver to mother, who was in the hospital once again. Mother was an especially chatty person and did not enjoy the solitude of her hospital room day-in and day-out; she would probably initiate a long conversation of bed pains and snotty nurses and utter quite a few discontented sighs. After this visit, the final stop would be home—more specifically, the shower, and then the bedroom—and then the same process would begin the next day, breaking the cycle only on Sunday—a day originally set aside for the public and solemn worship of God, though now is a day for the average person to take a break from their contemporary worship of things-they-don’t-need and spend time with their family doing things they saw other families do on tv.

I just discovered this piece of writing I started long ago; unfortunately, I can't remember what the story was going to be about. Perhaps I could take suggestions from your comments?

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