aslargeasalone
Joined Ficlatté in September 2014
37 stories, 0 challenges, 4 prompts, 48 comments, and 12 friends
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Getting back into the flow of writing, mostly with wordplay and poems. I'm a creative soul, from childhood to middle age, and my joy is to produce new things the world has never seen before. I'm an educator from the USA working as a college professor of lit and music. I'm learning to love myself little by little.
All Stories
Sonnet: An Unlaced Life
My name with foul insinuation's tarred
By people who seek easy victims meek
To charge with crimes in…
Published 6 years ago.
Bringers of the Final Weeks of Life
There is no Christmas morning planned this year.
We might not even see a Halloween.
The doom-predict…
Published 8 years ago.
Romp Roto
The elephants decide to jump
Upon the sofa
bump bump bump
Unfortunate, as I see now
The couch had pe…
Published 8 years ago.
A Friend Date
I'm going to meet my friend tonight
When we hold hands, my heart's so light
I'll kiss his face and…
Published 9 years ago.
Out Together
I don't much care just what we do,
So long as Anna's tight with Roo;
I'm always sure to love the v…
Published 9 years ago.
Unwilling to Escape
My friend deserves much better; still, he clings,
Against all warnings, to that bastard's love,
And …
Published 9 years ago.
Misplaced Trust
I'm edging closer daily to despair
From which, I doubt I ever can escape.
I brood on all the times I…
Published 9 years ago.
False Shelter
A hermit crab's a humble, helpless creature
That borrows others' armor as it grows
It's fragile, hav…
Published 9 years ago.
Mature Flag
I understand colonialism. I was treated like a terra incognita by a boy who thought he'd plant his f…
Published 10 years ago.
Ahoy! A sequel? Beeee-zarre!
I just had an image for a series of co-written stories, just for the experience and the cameraderie:…
Published 10 years ago.
Cocoon Moon
Everything seemed to happen at once. Stella lived at two speeds simultaneously. In what felt like it…
Published 10 years ago.
Chrysalis Moon
Feeling the moon approach, Stella tried to hurry her steps, but it was not easy; the barbed fence ju…
Published 10 years ago.
Cow Rite 4: Roadie, Oh!
Twenty minutes later, Snifty leaned back against his bar and wiped his brow against the bar rag. The…
Published 10 years ago.
Defeat?
Ass-whupped? Me? You should've seen Tiffany!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Published 10 years ago.
Caterpillar Moon
Stella trundled along the brook's edge, gazing behind her all the while when she could. The moon, th…
Published 10 years ago.