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PONTIUS PAIVA: Palindrome II

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End the pain and heartache. Bring others pleasure. Give people some happiness. Unrealistic chasing of desires create hate and rejection. Unbearable living makes love impossible.

Impossible love makes living unbearable. Rejection and hate create desires of chasing unrealistic happiness. Some people give pleasure, others bring heartache and pain. The end.

Pontius Paiva is a kook of an elihphile who can’t do a single pullup. His stories fly under the radar at pontiuspaiva.com.

Editor: Read Pontius’s previous palindrome story here.

DANIEL WILSON: Two Souls

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Two souls waited to be born.

I will be a beautiful girl, said the first, born into wealth.

I will be a lonely boy, said the second, abused and abandoned.

But why? asked first.

Because I’ll learn more in my few years of hardship than in your lifetime of privilege.

Daniel Wilson lives in the foothills of North Carolina with his wife and children.

M. ELAINE MOORE: The Thing About Love

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He just can’t leave, thank God. He loves me too much, knows how much I need him. The vet said he’d be long gone by now. Months ago, in fact. There was no hope. What better way to prove them wrong than to simply thrive, living on love and devotion?

M. Elaine Moore is a North Carolina-based fiction writer and poet. Her work can be found in print in The Island Breeze, and Outer Banks publication, and online at Foliate Oak Literary Journal, Four and Twenty, and The Camel Saloon.

 

Our World’s Most Precious Resource, or Livin’ in a Trailer by the Lake

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Water is my favourite drink
I sure find it delicious

If some old bad guy stole it all
I’d find it quite malicious

What would we do?
Where would we go?
We’d get so dehydrated

That’s why I built this reservoir
And sat down here
And waited

My lifestyle’s underrated

NEWS: Fifty-Word Stories Live-Writing

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EDIT: It’s over! Thank you to everyone who came and participated!

Wednesday, July 14, at 5 PM PST, I’ll be trying out something new that I think could be a lot of fun. I’m going to go on UStream and live-write stories for between 30 and 60 minutes (depending on how well it’s going and how much time I have).

If you want to watch and participate, head to the show page, where you can join in the chat. You can also watch via the embedded stream below.

I’ll be writing stories based on audience suggestions, and I plan to open up a Google Docs file to do the writing in, so that people can follow along as I type, if they so desire.