Barely Transparent

Sterling Boat by Sadie J Valeri Transparency. Cold as nothing. Illuminating everything. The light flows through. Shines onto red...

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A Mere Facade

Self - Portrait by Francis Bacon (1976) He kissed her good night and stood in the kitchen thinking about his past life. The previous mo...

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Immortalized

As Preeti Shenoy has written, Life Is What You Make It . This is my own story of love and its stages for Blogadda's Stages of Love . I...

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Of Jobs, Mobs And Getting High

This post has been selected as a guest column entry for The Viewspaper . You may also read it on their web page here . The crowd outside...

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Glasgow Smile

He went to his cabinet to get a scalpel, leaving her in the dark room tied to the bedposts after their short hours of sexual frenzy. She...

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A Stroke Of Luck

Impressionist Painting by Carola Richards As sickeningly disturbing thoughts trouble me. Through the night, unshakeable, too strong. ...

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Mixed Up

This post is an entry to the Indiblogger Close Up Fire-Freeze contest .   Let's talk about polar opposites here. The north and south ...

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Discomfiture

"Bishop Gardiner's Discomfiture By Lady Jane Grey" by G.F. Folingsby (1828 - 1891) I brooded over and over again. It to...

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Going Back In Time

Nostalgia – 24″x36″ – Acrylic on canvas ©2009, Don Michael, Jr. Standing alone tugging baggage upon my back. On a platform waiting fo...

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An Avoidable End

The Death of Chatterton: Henry Wallis (1856-58) With hands fumbling, cheeks wet with tears She unscrewed the lid and yanked it off its b...

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Murphy's Law

“Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” Desperate times call for desperate measures; and when one resorts to such desperation, eve...

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The Gift

On this New Year's day, I am posting my 100th post. I complete a century of blog posts with the best thing that happened to me in the ye...

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