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			<description>&amp;nbsp;Walking up to the school&amp;rsquo;s doors was like walking up to the beheading tower.&amp;nbsp;You could almost hear the drums singing their death song to the audience.&amp;nbsp;In this case, the audience was the crowd of kids flocking to figure out where their classes are and how to get their locker o..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/359219/</link>
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			<title>Walking Up to the School</title>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/359218/</link>
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			<title>Untitled</title>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/329975/</link>
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			<title>Nelicquele Omnicient</title>
			<description>this is the same thing as nelicquele, but written as third person omnicient.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/312932/</link>
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			<title>Guess</title>
			<description>Guess what I am talking about.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/312131/</link>
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			<title>These Masks</title>
			<description>This about me.  It's about my life and how I kept trying on masks, and yet could never find one that was right.  And when I finally figured out that I needed to be me, I couldn't remember who me was.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/310003/</link>
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			<title>5th Chapter</title>
			<description>I woke up to a blurry mess and the beeping of machines.&amp;nbsp; I rubbed my eyes and saw that I was at a hospital.&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;Damn,&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;I thought.&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;Hospital's suck.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; I nurse bustled in and checked a few machines and left.&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;Real talkers aren't they,&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/307811/</link>
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			<title>Metamorphosis</title>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/307786/</link>
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			<title>Synthetic Obstructions of the Cosmic Process</title>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/307784/</link>
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			<title>Last chapter/Epilogue</title>
			<description>He told me that he was chosen to branch out the coven into our area because there was a lot of activity there lately.&amp;nbsp; He told me he was0. chosen to be the king of the coven and was given the task of finding a queen and starting a new coven in our home town.&amp;nbsp; Vampires are changed in a sacr..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/307756/</link>
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			<title>4th Chapter</title>
			<description>The day went by slowly, creeping and crawling towards every second, minute and hour marks.&amp;nbsp; When school, was done, though, it felt like it had flown past.&amp;nbsp; I sat underneath the overhang for almost an hour when Jimmy finally pulled up.&amp;nbsp; &amp;ldquo;Are you ready?&amp;rdquo; He asked in a noncha..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/307755/</link>
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			<title>3rd Chapter</title>
			<description>There was a soft rap on my locker door as I was organizing my locker.&amp;nbsp; &amp;ldquo;Oh, umm, Victoria, Morgan, and Bud, if it&amp;rsquo;s you.&amp;nbsp; Just wait a sec, I just need to get this in here.&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp; I replied.&amp;nbsp; Huffing and puffing because I was trying to stuff a locker shelf for the fif..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/307753/</link>
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			<title>2nd Chapter</title>
			<description>Names and places subject to change.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/307752/</link>
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			<title>1st Chapter</title>
			<description>I was born in Sioux Falls, SD in the middle of a blizzard.&amp;nbsp; My uncle had to pave the way there with his tractor with my dad and my mom and me in our GMC pickup.&amp;nbsp; It was 30 miles.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;At 4:10 in the morning of January 27, 1994, two cries were heard in room 116 of ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/307750/</link>
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			<title>Into/Prologue 2</title>
			<description>Do you want to know?&amp;nbsp; Do you want to understand?&amp;nbsp; Do you want to discover?&amp;nbsp;I dare you to read on.&amp;nbsp; Will you accept?&amp;nbsp;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/307749/</link>
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			<title>Introduction/Prologue 1</title>
			<description>It was kind of ironic really.&amp;nbsp; The first assignment in my college writing class, that is.&amp;nbsp; &amp;ldquo;Describe who you are and include how and why you are who you are.&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp; Mrs. Varpness asked for 800 words, I could give her a novel.&amp;nbsp; Let&amp;rsquo;s just say that &amp;ldquo;I&amp;rdquo; am c..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/307748/</link>
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			<title>Nelicquele</title>
			<description>This my current project and I am very proud of it, but it's subject to change and mass overhauls.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/307746/</link>
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			<title>Chapter 6</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;I looked up into a swathing blaze of colors, fabrics, and patterns. I started to panic because I was no longer in a known place.&amp;nbsp; I quickly jumped from my bed and grabbed a robe on a chest and wrapped it around me as I was very cold.&amp;nbsp; The bed was gaudily decorated as if it was from..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/307744/</link>
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			<title>Chapter 5</title>
			<description>I woke up in my room at 3:00 in the morning.&amp;nbsp; I couldn&amp;rsquo;t understand why I was there.&amp;nbsp; Then I saw Garret and my family in my room.&amp;nbsp; They looked concerned.&amp;nbsp; They realized I was awake so they all rushed to the bed.&amp;nbsp; They all spoke at once. &amp;ldquo;I am so sorry!,&amp;rdquo; or..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/307742/</link>
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			<title>Chapter 4</title>
			<description>The daggers broke when we attempted to use them and&amp;nbsp; it was only our luck that 2 stupid vampyrs cut our ropes before we were supposed to be killed.&amp;nbsp; Then Garret and I got separated.&amp;nbsp; The plan was to run southwest until we reached the river, which we would swim across and then meet bac..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/307740/</link>
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			<title>Chapter 3</title>
			<description>&amp;quot;You have mail!&amp;rdquo; is what I woke up to on the day of my 3rd mission.&amp;nbsp; &amp;ldquo;Fine, just don&amp;rsquo;t open it.&amp;rdquo; I managed to yell through my pillow to the kitchen which is where my mother was and where my letter most probably was.&amp;nbsp; &amp;ldquo;Too late!&amp;rdquo; my little brother Ma..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/307739/</link>
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			<title>2nd Chapter</title>
			<description>Around the time inductees are memberized, vampyr activity skyrockets.&amp;nbsp; They are always trying to mess up our traditions.&amp;nbsp; They find it funny to behead the strongest individual out of the strongest couple in every class.&amp;nbsp; Then for even bigger laughs, they will send the&amp;nbsp; head to th..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/307737/</link>
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			<title>1st Chapter</title>
			<description>This is what it said. &amp;nbsp;I guess I should introduce myself since I&amp;rsquo;m going to be telling you my life story.&amp;nbsp; Usually you hear this kind of stuff from famous TV personalities or athletes, but I was always ordinary; ordinary parents, ordinary house, ordinary friends; ordinary life.&amp;nbsp;..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/307735/</link>
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			<title>Into/Prologue</title>
			<description>I, Marietta Ariel Lancaster, do hereby present this account of my life, abridged, to the ILH International Library.&amp;nbsp; I read this from the inside of the cover of an new, never-opened book I found in the library of my local branch of the ILH.&amp;nbsp; The book intrigued me so I read it through in on..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/307734/</link>
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			<title>Bloodbonds, not definite</title>
			<description>This is an old project of mine, I don't know what I want to do with it, but I'm planning a big overhaul of it, so be prepared for changes.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/307731/</link>
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			<title>Midnight Destiny</title>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/307599/</link>
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			<title>Prologue/Chapter 1/Introduction</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;Ballet is my life, I love it as my mother loved it.&amp;nbsp; I am dedicated to it as my mother was dedicated.&amp;nbsp; I dream of it as my mother dreamt of it.&amp;nbsp; Ballet was my mother&amp;rsquo;s life, and so it has always been mine.&amp;nbsp; My mother died because of it, and I plan to do the same thi..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/307594/</link>
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			<title>Ballet is my life, not definite title</title>
			<description>This is a recurring dream I have been having.  Girl is a dancer, but her mentor, her mother, dies and has her live w. her dad who doesn't know she exists.  He is married with kids and fosterkids.  She is shunned by a lot of people and forced to quit danci</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/307593/</link>
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			<title>I Wish</title>
			<description>I wrote this for the same friend I wrote You to.  She had a lot of emotional prob.s and was pulling me down to places I didn't want to be or even see, so I cut off our friendship.  i still hurt, obviously.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/307582/</link>
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			<title>Eclipse</title>
			<description>This is also for the inspiration contest.  It is a companion to the muses of my world.  this didn't even get honorable mention.  Again, juliet is the moon and romeo the sun.  Its about an eclipse.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/307579/</link>
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			<title>The Muses of My World</title>
			<description>I wrote this for a contest, the theme was &amp;quot;inspiration&amp;quot;.  I got 1st place.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/307575/</link>
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			<title>An Atlete's Anthem</title>
			<description>I was really inspired one night after watching the olympics.  This is what came about.  I am dedicating this to anyone who has ever entertained olympic dreams.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/307574/</link>
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			<title>in my mind</title>
			<description>I was feeling real dark one night and expressed it with this poem.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/307134/</link>
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			<title>You</title>
			<description>This is a fragment of a poem that I wrote for someone.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/307118/</link>
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			<title>Aequalitas</title>
			<description>This is a poem I wrote for a contest where the theme was &amp;quot;created equal&amp;quot;.

I used this poem to expressivly describe the differences between the reality of equality in out world, and what we wish it to be.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Feminist_Mermaid/306647/</link>
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