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Speakeasy #147 Prompt – I Can’t Talk

There was a time when things were different. I could talk without thinking, without my vocal cords seizing and without the right side of my face clenching as I try to make words flow from neurons to...

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Yeah Write: Gargleblaster Challenge

Do you see her much? Every day, looking back at me with eyes that have not changed since birth. I see her, as she was in the past, with varying amounts of shame and jealously. I see her future and...

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Yeah Write: Gargleblaster #158 (Gabriel García Márquez Tribute)

“Tell me something, old friend: why are you fighting?” “Because my generation isn’t spoiled,” she said, “We know what we want, but have no idea how to get it. Failure was shielded from us, our brains...

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Latent Prints and Blood Splatter

The direction of blood droplets trailing from the bedroom to the bathroom told me the sequence of events. You wiped your prints from the knife handle, but left a thumb impression on the faucet. I found...

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Interrogation

He taught me how to read people’s eyes — how they dart side to side, if tears become waterfalls. “If you read carefully, you can peel back the layers to their story — any story — and find where the...

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Where I Stand

When did you know you were lost, he asked. When? When I stood on the rocks watching the Irish sea explode over my feet I felt free, not lost. You say “lost” like I fled this country out of boredom, out...

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