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 4 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 6 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 6 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 7 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 7 years ago.
Unwilling to Escape
My friend deserves much better; still, he clings,
Against all warnings, to that bastard's love,
And …
Published 7 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 7 years ago.
False Shelter
A hermit crab's a humble, helpless creature
That borrows others' armor as it grows
It's fragile, hav…
Published 7 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 8 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 8 years ago.
Cocoon Moon
Everything seemed to happen at once. Stella lived at two speeds simultaneously. In what felt like it…
Published 8 years ago.
Chrysalis Moon
Feeling the moon approach, Stella tried to hurry her steps, but it was not easy; the barbed fence ju…
Published 8 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 8 years ago.
Defeat?
Ass-whupped? Me? You should've seen Tiffany!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Published 8 years ago.
Caterpillar Moon
Stella trundled along the brook's edge, gazing behind her all the while when she could. The moon, th…
Published 8 years ago.