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    "Tiggy" by Rose Kimbrough

    Ms. Kimbrough was a participant in the spring 2011 course Introduction to Short Story Writing. 

    On gentle paws she glides across the room.

    Light and air compose her soft grey being.

    Green eyed creature that leaps through air…

    Graceful…light…landing almost without sound.

    Pausing, posed in a sunlit window,to sensuously lick herself clean of danger and care.

    Ready to curl for a nap around some unseen axis.

    Sunlight gathering itself, until motion once again takes over from repose.

    Then a yawn and one great stretch…

    Returned now the impulse to hunt the leafy forest,and feel the wild freedom in her paws.

    1990

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    "The Surfliner" by Dana Sexton

    Ms. Sexton was a participant in the in the fall 2011 course Writing the Novel: The Basics. 

    Rusted wheels and

    Steel hulk humming

    Reverberation

    Upon cool plate glass

     

    Night birds calling and

    Full moon pulling

    The ocean water retreats while

    Worn tracks deep in gravel

    Meet the sloping berm

     

    Circular rhythm, spinning forward

    Past shadowed treetops and

    Black roof houses

    Fenced by telephone poles

    Thick with tar

     

    All lit

    With neon

    Moonlight

    Porch lights

    The myopic beam of the engine

     

    All reflected in this salt air speed

    All watched by this one traveler

    Head resting on a damp pane

    Reading the illuminated darkness

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    "The Wall (from Motion of Time)" by Rose Kimbrough

    Ms. Kimbrough was a participant in the spring 2011 course Introduction to Short Story Writing. 

    There is a wall that's keeping away Spring.

    Everyone tries like a thief,

    To find a new crown and a friend.

    They pray and make a fuss and create lore

    To explain the forms and signs.

    They want to make the boat seem steady,

    As it sails this rang of Ocean,

    Looking for a strand that leads past death…

    That leads past grief

    To give us a taste of a new seeing.

    A new mass with a new friend…

    1990

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    "Words Still Waiting" by John Lynn

    Mr. Lynn was a participant in the fall 2010 course Script-Writing Workshop  

    I finished my story yesterday

    Words Still Waiting…

    To my neighbors it went

    Words Still Waiting…

    To my mother, my aunt, and finally my daughter these pages sent

    Words Still Waiting…

    To the upper shelf of the closest my deepest thoughts would spend

    Words Still Waiting…

    And my daughter was married

    Words Still Waiting…

    Till my granddaughter was born

    Words Still Waiting…

    And visited her grandfather's grave

    Words Still Waiting…

    Till she opened the book and read it to the back

    Words Still Waiting…

    And added the final thought that sent my story to the streets

    Words Still Waiting…

    Her final words?

    Words Still Waiting… Till she wrote her own story but couldn't finish

    Words Still Waiting…

    Until Yesterday

    Words Still Waiting…

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