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			<title>The Photographer</title>
			<description>I wrote this one recently during a long afternoon at the office, longing to be somewhere else...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TwinFeats/1014374/</link>
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			<title>Chess Nuts</title>
			<description>You have to read this with &quot;chestnuts roasting on an open fire&quot; in your head. :) If you're not a chess player, this will be gibberish. So, you know, like all my stuff! :)</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TwinFeats/1012839/</link>
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			<title>Carpe Diem Cras (haiku)</title>
			<description>:-P</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TwinFeats/1012348/</link>
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			<title>The Day We Never Met</title>
			<description>It was an ordinary day,The day we never met,When our eyes embracedThe moment foretold regretOf a lifetime of possibilitiesI could only glimpse in silhouette.For how could I burden youWhen I knew I could not stayThough your brief smileBeckoned me to find a wayTo throw ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TwinFeats/1011232/</link>
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			<title>Cowardice</title>
			<description>This is a rough draft of something I've been meaning to write for a very long time.  All comments and suggestions welcome. :)</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TwinFeats/1009282/</link>
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			<title>Godliness (haiku)</title>
			<description>The world in ruinsInnocents fodder of warWhere is your god now?</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TwinFeats/1009003/</link>
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			<title>The Hyphen Defense</title>
			<description>This was written for a writing challenge - to write a story with characters and plot in exactly 55 words. The instructors name was Martin, btw. :)</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TwinFeats/1008996/</link>
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			<title>God or Chance</title>
			<description>God or ChanceI remember a world of such darknessIn a time not so very long agoWhen I was filled with abject emptinessLonging for release of my withered soulYet there was something deep within my mindThat urged me on each long and lonely dayGently reassuring me, &amp;ldquo..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TwinFeats/1008718/</link>
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			<title>Choices</title>
			<description>ChoicesI&amp;rsquo;ve made many choices throughout my life.Some have brought great joy, others great sorrow.So as I ponder what else might have beenI see that today leads to tomorrow.For despite all my mistakes, all the pain,Those choices brought to me a love so true.So..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TwinFeats/1008717/</link>
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			<title>If Ever</title>
			<description>If EverIf ever there was love so pure, so meant to be,It could hardly compare to the love we two share.For your love shines upon me as straight from heaven,So brilliant I am wholly cleansed, my soul laid bare.Yet your love does not shy from my darkness now seen.Instead ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TwinFeats/1008715/</link>
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			<title>Spirit Sustained</title>
			<description>I wrote this after reading Kahlil Gibran's &quot;The Profit&quot;. If you haven't read that one yet, I urge you to check it out! :)</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TwinFeats/1008714/</link>
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			<title>Moments</title>
			<description>Inspired by an actual event with my children.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TwinFeats/1008712/</link>
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			<title>Persephone No More</title>
			<description>I wrote this for my now-wife, about 2 weeks after we had met.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TwinFeats/1008706/</link>
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			<title>GPSY</title>
			<description>A college senior searches for meaning following the death of his roommate. (If you liked &quot;Garden State&quot; you'll probably like this).  Inspired by the death of my brother Keith in 1985.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/TwinFeats/1008602/</link>
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