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		<description>The original writings of author Rachel</description>
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			<title>A Thousand Armies</title>
			<description>Spontaneous Sonnet for my Love.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/1160858/</link>
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			<title>Lovestruck fools may do little else</title>
			<description>Spontaneously written during a bout of dokis.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/1107418/</link>
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			<title>Drifting florals</title>
			<description>Spontaneous poem while conversing with my honey. Came out in 9-8-9 format without an edit.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/1091561/</link>
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			<title>*untitled*</title>
			<description>Can't wait to have you near,Just to see, just to hear,Wishing to have you dear,There's nothing left to fear.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/1079634/</link>
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			<title>Prologue</title>
			<description>Once upon a timethere was a little girl who loved her father very much and followedhim everywhere. He made shoes, you see. Beautiful shoes that madeeveryone feel better just by seeing them. One day, the little girlwas downstairs when something miraculous happened. A boy dressed insoft, ric..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/817229/</link>
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			<title>Glass Revolution</title>
			<description>A rebel faction leader by the code name of Cinderella fights to release the Kingdom of Prince from the clutches of the Evil Dictator known only as the Stepmother.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/817226/</link>
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			<title>Coming in Going</title>
			<description>Written in Senior English Composition when I should have been reading the Odyssey.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/537915/</link>
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			<title>Quarantine Tournament: Round One</title>
			<description>One of the sites I frequent a lot holds Original Character Tournaments. So, I joined one with writing. I thought that it was good writing, so here it is. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/498138/</link>
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			<title>Chapter 14: Tu Parle Francais?</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;By the time we reached the airport, there was a crowd about a mile wide. Teenagers, grown women, grown men, all of them following our walk and snapping pictures with whatever they had.&amp;ldquo;I can practically see the headlines,&amp;rdquo; Syla tittered. &amp;ldquo;Mystery look alike accompanies wo..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/461787/</link>
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			<title>Chapter 13: To Oz?</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;I was already awake as the sun rose behind me. I was walking to the hotel in which my secretary was staying, a place called The Inn at the Roman Forum. It was a mouthful, but the place was actually quite nice, if a little stuffy. It wasn&amp;rsquo;t too far from Saturn&amp;rsquo;s temple, either, wh..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/435297/</link>
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			<title>Chapter 12: Oh, and I Almost Forgot...</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;I was flying into the edges of Roma when I remembered that I had driven here, not flown. I shook my feathered head and tilted a little towards the ground I could see the Coliseum in the distance, so I knew that I was getting closer to the parking place. I let my mind wander as I let my mind ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/408270/</link>
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			<title>Chapter 11: For the Love of All That's Roman!</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I had walked quite a ways before I realized that I didn&amp;rsquo;t know where I was going. I knew that there were vampires here, but I didn&amp;rsquo;t have a clue where they were stationed. I stopped where I was, trying to figure out where I was. I looked around and saw that I was..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/407332/</link>
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			<title>Chapter 10: When in Rome...</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;As I boarded yet another plane, I thought of home, and about how lonely Thrasher must be. I shook my head and sat down in my seat, noticing that, in the nearly full plane, there were three people whose eyes kept wandering back to me. I checked my eyes in the window. No, they were normal. I s..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/388138/</link>
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			<title>Don't Scoff My Unquelled Rebellion</title>
			<description>Totally off the top of my head, and totally didn't go where I thought it would.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/386662/</link>
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			<title>Chapter 9: Good Solid Information</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;My unwilling night-stalker and I were currently sitting in a strip club. Yes, I did say a strip club. We were waiting to talk to his maker, who, frankly, I had a few words for. The place was actually pretty nice as far as strip joints went. It had soft pink carpet and clean white paint. The ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/375934/</link>
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			<title>The Rose Rebellion</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;Flowing, growing,Ever knowing,The Tree of Life,Goddess of Strife,Give me one good reasonNot to commit treasonLeave me aloneUntil I&amp;rsquo;ve grownHear the ringingOur voice is bringingChanges unknownThe winds we&amp;rsquo;ve blownBringing to fruitionOur promised rationO..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/370415/</link>
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			<title>Chapter 1: Tea Party</title>
			<description>The room is white, an empty canvas. The only things in the space were a small table with four child sized chairs, a television, several stuffed animals, and a girl. The girl was a small blonde child of about five years. She was playing with her friends, Mrs. Bear, Mr. Frog, and Mopsy. They were ha..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/357278/</link>
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			<title>Do You Want a Cookie?</title>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/357276/</link>
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			<title>Chapter 8: New to the Game</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Let me say that again. I tripped&amp;hellip;over a vampire.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The despicable creature attacked me, apparently thinking I was a human. I took it(him?) by the back of the neck and heaved. He went flying and I was on top of him before I could stop myself, ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/353082/</link>
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			<title>Chapter 7: Problems</title>
			<description>I stepped off of the train feeling hopeful. This might actually work, I thought, maybe I can do this.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nb..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/353074/</link>
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			<title>Chapter 6: Dinner with Malcontents</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The Hall was filled with noise as the night progressed. As we ate we all swapped battle stories and myths. After a few courses the conversation broke down into smaller sections. With less attention on me I felt safe enough to ask my next question.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;n..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/353068/</link>
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			<title>Darkened Light</title>
			<description>Sonnet I wrote during Ren. Faire. I gave them a choice between Love or Death as subject matter. Most chose Death. That's what this one is.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/344130/</link>
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			<title>In Full Moonlight</title>
			<description>The story of Riley DeLoupes and her rise to the top of the Food Chain.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/339311/</link>
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			<title>The Pumpkin Ate Me and I Died...Oops!</title>
			<description>written close to Halloween.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/331608/</link>
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			<title>Just You and Me</title>
			<description>To you my eyes are so steadily drawn,My heart driving my mind to it's own ends.Your hand touches me in the light of dawn,And my new lost heart stops as it begins.You stand, and the light pales in reverence,Lost in the strands of your ebony hair.You speak, and sound becomes a lost cadence..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/329261/</link>
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			<title>Chapter 5: The Russian Gregorians</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; As I entered the small town of Tyumen, I felt a strong opposition to my presence. I was an outsider, and the locals thought I should just mind my own business and leave.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I turned the next corner into the darkness of the all..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/315694/</link>
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			<title>Chapter 4: Trace Amount</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I was back on the Am-trak again, the landscape out of the windows dark with night. I had spent all day flitting from one site to another, trying to find some trace of my man, when I thought of my sophomore world history class.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/315687/</link>
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			<title>Softly</title>
			<description>Murder she wrote(literally being that i'm a she and I wrote it!)</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/298356/</link>
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			<title>Outcast</title>
			<description>[size=14][i][center][color=pink]Oh my god,What is she wearing?The only one in the out crowd.Standing alone,Obviously a choice,When someone like that,Stands with others,Their beauty rebounds.Shimmering oddityPink and gold Stands out among othersStranded by unhampered beautyA..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/297716/</link>
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			<title>Chapter 3: Ironic Humor</title>
			<description>I woke to the ringing of the church bells. It was eleven o&amp;rsquo; clock, and I&amp;rsquo;d only had four hours of sleep, falling into dark as all else where rising from it, the blue of the night sky fading to pink. I looked down on the church goers, remembering once again. I was an alter boy, in a manne..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/281081/</link>
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			<title>Graceful Distaste</title>
			<description>a poem about any of two things</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/279522/</link>
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			<title>Chapter 2: At the Head of the Trail</title>
			<description>I stretched my legs in the Transylvanian airport&amp;rsquo;s lobby, having flown several hours from San Francisco to the very heart of the myth. I was pretty sure he would no longer be in the place of his youth, but I was also sure there would be clues as to where he might be now. I looked through the t..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/277228/</link>
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			<title>Stuck</title>
			<description>A field of stones,Lay still, alone.No names to give identity.No love of mine to give to thee.No time for tender loving care,To make me stay in rotten lair.I walk the grounds with tear-soaked eyes,Sad at the state of the stones that rise,Up through the skies,Up to the highs,Where ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/276261/</link>
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			<title>Fears of the smallest</title>
			<description>A scream in the nightA touch of frightand small huddle against my chest.&amp;nbsp;A storm in the nightGave a bit of frightto my dearest, my smallest.&amp;nbsp;Only one nightOne night of frightand a story told by the best.&amp;nbsp;Early morning lightNo more nightJust the remnants of ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/272896/</link>
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			<title>Chapter 1: Busy Work</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;quot;You're doing what?!&amp;quot; my boyfriend gasped in horror. His eyes were wide with concern. I knew that this would be a hard arguement to win.A--He wasn't present, as per usual, but in my mind I painted a picture of ho..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/257834/</link>
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			<title>Prologue: Lone Wolf</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; And in the dark of night she left us. Left us for what she said was our own good. She didn't want to slip up and fulfill Ebba's wishes. Jay's Wishes. She didn't want to kill us. Didn't want to kill the world.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/257830/</link>
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			<title>Meeting the First</title>
			<description>A tale of finding that elusive figure, Dracula.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/257828/</link>
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			<title>The Other Sock Did WHAT!!!</title>
			<description>I was doing some laundry when I noticed with a cry,My, oh my, dear sock, where might your mate be!It looked me in the eye and told me straight,&amp;quot;I truly don't know, he left me in the night.&amp;quot;At that very moment, down in Tiajuana,the manly argyle sock was in it pretty tight.He was..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/255851/</link>
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			<title>Muffin Run</title>
			<description>a poem about a well traveled muffin</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/255829/</link>
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			<title>Books</title>
			<description>An ode to books, forever may they live</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/255826/</link>
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			<title>Nevermore Heartless</title>
			<description>a fitting description of a friends up coming book</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/255810/</link>
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			<title>To a Tale</title>
			<description>an ode to writers everywhere</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/255806/</link>
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			<title>Life's Last Moments</title>
			<description>What I think it will be like in the end.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Rachelio/254326/</link>
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