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		<description>The original writings of author Fabian G. Franklin</description>
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			<title>The Kitchen Light</title>
			<description>Flickeringfluorescent kitchen light reflectingon green tile below;green-goldmetal-flake counter-topsivorycolored porcelain sinksYellowpine, tongue and groove ceilingsSteamrising from a kettle on the stoveEarlywinter and the children huddletodry out their socks and s..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Chelsea-Franklin/3130664/</link>
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			<title>Brand Names</title>
			<description>Some discerning shoppers are particular</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Chelsea-Franklin/3130616/</link>
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			<title>The Ladies I've Loved</title>
			<description>Tribute</description>
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			<title>Too Late</title>
			<description>Armageddon</description>
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			<title>Return of the Crows</title>
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			<title>Learning to Fly</title>
			<description>&quot;I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings&quot; Tom Petty</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Chelsea-Franklin/3128352/</link>
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			<title>Phantoms</title>
			<description>Ghosts in the dark</description>
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			<title>For those asking &quot;WHY?&quot;</title>
			<description>This excerpt was copied from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies: Since the 1979Islamic Revolution, the clerical regime in Tehran and its proxieshave committed a range of attacks against Americans. This memorandumprovides select documentation of these assaults. While the list isnot com..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Chelsea-Franklin/3128291/</link>
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			<title>Divine Comedy</title>
			<description>&quot;God may be the greatest comedian of all performing for an audience too afraid to laugh.&quot;</description>
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			<title>Remember Me</title>
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			<title> Cloud Castles</title>
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			<title>Cold Coffee</title>
			<description>Some like it hot.</description>
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			<title>What I Can Remember</title>
			<description>Wewent into the dayexpectantand exploringonbicycles in tennis shoessunshineto streetlampsWeonly came insideforfood and raintobooks and games andjigsaw puzzlesWeused imaginationslikemagic wandsfortsfrom cardboard boxes..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Chelsea-Franklin/3124417/</link>
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			<title>Give Me the Night</title>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Chelsea-Franklin/3124184/</link>
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			<title>Tokens</title>
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			<title>The Gift</title>
			<description>Brightleaves of Autumn; fallen and gonetojust a few black stragglers, left hanging onwirycharcoal appendages, clinging at a cold gray skyrobbedof life and warmth by Winter&amp;rsquo;s sighButWinter gives as much as she takesfillingthe air with snowflakesNojeweler&amp;rsquo;s ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Chelsea-Franklin/3122490/</link>
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			<title>Vintage</title>
			<description>Everyman should live as he believesbutthere are traitors among uswhowould sell their souls for silver and goldandpawn the scales of justiceBewarethe rabid dogs that bitesnarling,frothing at the mouthspoutingthe spew of politicswhilethe world keeps heading south..</description>
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			<title>After the Storm</title>
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			<title>Whisper</title>
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			<title>Trees in Fog</title>
			<description>In the morning, light barelybroke throughacurtain of cloud to reveal the blueeverythingsat beneath a blanket of whitebroughtby the rain that fell in the nightFramedby a fringe of deciduous treeswithsmoky tendrils grasping the breezeshadowyfigures rose from the bog..</description>
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			<title>Celestial Recollection</title>
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			<title>The Poet in Winter</title>
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			<title>Cupid's Student</title>
			<description>Thereare many things I do not know;crystallinesymmetry shapes the snow,whythe mountains seem smoky bluewhenthe hills grow distant from my viewTheway a hawk sifts wind with his wingsisone of the more wonderful thingsandthe wide expanse of starry skyleavesme..</description>
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			<title>Blue Ferris Wheel</title>
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			<title>The Crows</title>
			<description>Beforethe rising sun thecrows cometosit in an old oak treeabovethe cemeteryTheyscream theirindignationinthe dawnperchedhighabovethe graves of menTheylive as shadowsbetweenthe leaves somewhere,up there..</description>
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			<title>Rhymes with Orange</title>
			<description>The sun came up candy orangelike a comforting citrus lozengedrawing the dark of night awayand soothing the scratchysore throat of day</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Chelsea-Franklin/2964553/</link>
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			<title>Upward</title>
			<description>Tiny spark in the ocean ofnightplottinga path with pulses of lightThebreath of the universe dispersedby such thingsAmote of dust in the cosmoscaughtup on fiery wingsBornof fire, trusting in flamebearingit away without a nameInsignificantspark, ..</description>
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			<title>The Storyteller</title>
			<description>A visage carved fromjagged lines;a broad forehead,rugose with time,wrinkles round hissteel gray eyeslips that set ingrim surmise.His countenance wasfearful,his stiff beard,grizzled and thickjust a gaze upon theguiltywas enough to makethe convicted sickbut the innoce..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Chelsea-Franklin/2963213/</link>
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			<title>The Filtered Story</title>
			<description>A remix</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Chelsea-Franklin/2962892/</link>
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			<title>Every picture tells one.</title>
			<description>Rod Stewart asked.</description>
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