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Santa Maria #55worder

September 20, 2014by RepressedSoul Leave a comment

He smelt of sour rum and stale tobacco. Fingers yellowed, hardened from years of taking what was not his, and enjoying plunder. His family had come from Spain generations previously, […]

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Oops

September 19, 2014by RepressedSoul 1 Comment

‘They’ll disown me’ , taking a long drag of the cigarette, nervously picking paper from red lipstick. ‘Things like this shouldn’t happen to me.” Elvira choked, exhaling jaggedly blue carcinogenic […]

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Artist?

September 18, 2014by RepressedSoul 1 Comment

I told him I loved him once, a lifetime ago. Would he remember? He sat engrossed at the Dickensian desk, pen and jotter in hand. I think he may have […]

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55 #55worder

September 17, 2014by RepressedSoul Leave a comment

Even her long legs, plumped up diva red lips and flash of thigh didn’t work on policewomen apparently. “Step out of the car madam” As soon as that breathalyzer was […]

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Sharps

September 16, 2014by RepressedSoul Leave a comment

Lights hummed, arbitrary 2am artificial neons. He created a work of art, beautiful neat stitches on porcelaine skin. A simple scar from larynx to pelvis. So young, so beautiful, what […]

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On giving a ghost directions NaPoWriMo #17

April 17, 2011by RepressedSoul 13 Comments

It wasn’t about the grave where I usually lay my flowers that I spotted the waif . The bright sunlight gave her blonde curls that opalescent glow. Knowing at once […]

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Reflective apathy NaPoWriMo #10

April 10, 2011by RepressedSoul 8 Comments

The voices in her head kept telling her to jump in. Reflected in the water the subtle features of her usually soft face were all ‘wrong’. There was something ‘off’. […]

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Carcinogen Queen

March 13, 2011by RepressedSoul 29 Comments

  Blue eyed Titania tokes on the death of a stub opaque skin simmers with inhaled cyanide adding to the titration of the blood in her veins,   on she […]

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The artist

March 6, 2011by RepressedSoul 34 Comments

  I told him I loved him once, a very long time ago. He just sat on that derelict old stage with a pen and a jotter pad, but I […]

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Purple rain

February 6, 2011by RepressedSoul 24 Comments

She instantly regretted the decision she’d made in following Chuck out into the corn field. In a psychedelic haze it was an impossibility to distinguish him from the scarecrow, and […]

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