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		<description>The original writings of author Naomi Bloom</description>
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			<title>The Night Cashier</title>
			<description>A poem about my experience as an overnight cashier at a grocery store.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1297299/</link>
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			<title>Chapter 19, Must Be Dreaming</title>
			<description>The nineteenth chapter of &quot;Wilde Horses Couldn't Stop Me!&quot;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1292910/</link>
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			<title>Chapter 18, Are We Just Going to Wait it Out?</title>
			<description>The eighteenth chapter of &quot;Wilde Horses Couldn't Stop Me!&quot;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1292908/</link>
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			<title>New Year's Day Couplet</title>
			<description>Just came up with this on the fly as I was taking my coffee to the study.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1291320/</link>
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			<title>Chapter 17, Courage Cowers</title>
			<description>The seventeenth chapter of &quot;Wilde Horses Couldn't Stop Me!&quot;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1188266/</link>
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			<title>Chapter 16, Wanderlust</title>
			<description>The sixteenth chapter of &quot;Wilde Horses Couldn't Stop Me!&quot;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1188214/</link>
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			<title>Drowning</title>
			<description>Song lyrics describing the doomed romance between a mammal and a fish.  Can you guess what animated characters I am referring to?</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1166257/</link>
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			<title>Acronym for Contest</title>
			<description>Acronym for Contest</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1132138/</link>
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			<title>Old Yeller Character Sketch</title>
			<description>A character sketch of the character Old Yeller.  Created for a contest.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1129964/</link>
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			<title>To Give Up My Dream</title>
			<description>A poem of hopelessness and honesty; giving up.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1126097/</link>
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			<title>Sunday, Bloody Sunday</title>
			<description>Married bliss has become a chore for Renata Jizzabelli, an engineer who routinely retreats to the bad part of town to satisfy her urges...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1124178/</link>
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			<title>Somewhere Under The Landmines (A Parody)</title>
			<description>A parody of Israel Kamakawiwo&amp;#699;ole's famous medley &quot;Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World,&quot; titled &quot;Somewhere under the Landmines/What a Horrible Planet.&quot; </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1123537/</link>
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			<title>Ugly Choir Girl</title>
			<description>The psychological dance that goes on during a boring choir practice (or even, God forbid, an interesting one)...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1123534/</link>
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			<title>Today</title>
			<description>Love song lyrics about a guy from work.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1123532/</link>
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			<title>Spring Cabana</title>
			<description>About a lovely person I will probably never see again.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1123522/</link>
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			<title>Hospital Whisper</title>
			<description>My mom died, I told my crush, he was on painkillers and the way he talked to me made me wish I had never told him.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1123521/</link>
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			<title>The Walrus and the Narwhal</title>
			<description>A superstitious young adult pays a nostalgic visit to her dusty collection of little plastic animals.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1123516/</link>
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			<title>The Friend</title>
			<description>A poem about the drifting apart between me and a former friend.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1123509/</link>
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			<title>The Green and White Snake</title>
			<description>A poem about the GO Train in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1123047/</link>
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			<title>Spain: a rhyming exercise</title>
			<description>This was just a fun and random poem that isn't really supposed to make sense. It's fun to gradually transform words. I think this poem has the potential to be the lyrics to a techno song maybe.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1123041/</link>
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			<title>He is coming</title>
			<description>That feeling when you see the silhouette of your crush across the school hallway.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1123037/</link>
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			<title>Divorced Men</title>
			<description>An unrequited love poem to a man of tweed perfection.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1123033/</link>
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			<title>Goodnight and Good Luck</title>
			<description>Insomnia, paranoia and longing.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1123027/</link>
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			<title>Waiting for an Epiphany</title>
			<description>A drabble dealing with the themes of inspiration and writer's block.  A drabble is a flash fiction consisting of 100 words; no more, no less.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1123024/</link>
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			<title>Professorial Confrontations, No. 2, Whiteboard Chat</title>
			<description>A confrontation with a professor.  Part of a flash fiction series.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1123019/</link>
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			<title>Quip #1</title>
			<description>Quipping!</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1122970/</link>
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			<title>Williams Waffle</title>
			<description>A short story about my trip to Williams for a waffle.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1122883/</link>
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			<title>Unravelling</title>
			<description>A depressing, sad poem.  Despite the ending, I am not gay; at least I don't think that I am...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1122864/</link>
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			<title>Try Stupid S**t (A Billy Talent parody)</title>
			<description>A parody of Try Honesty by Billy Talent.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1122840/</link>
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			<title>The Time and the Place</title>
			<description>A poem about the people who are oh-so-great at acting.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1122820/</link>
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			<title>The Seduction of the Nerd</title>
			<description>A love poem to all the nerds out there... from a fellow nerd.  :)</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1122814/</link>
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			<title>The Introvert (Based on a speech by Susan Cain)</title>
			<description>A song about introverts and society.  Inspired by and based on the speech &quot;The Power of Introverts&quot; by Susan Cain, who wrote the book Quiet.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1122811/</link>
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			<title>Book Review: The Help</title>
			<description>Book review of The Help by Kathryn Stockett.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1122808/</link>
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			<title>Swimming</title>
			<description>A poem about swimming.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1122803/</link>
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			<title>Jailbait (My Terrible Rebecca Black Parody)</title>
			<description>A godawful parody of Rebecca Black's Friday.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1122794/</link>
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			<title>I'm Hairy (A Feist Parody)</title>
			<description>A rather crude parody of Feist's song I'm Sorry.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1122785/</link>
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			<title>Singing His Song</title>
			<description>A love poem.  Details below in the author's note.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1122780/</link>
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			<title>The Ballad of Sawyer Dupree</title>
			<description>This is the story of Sawyer Dupree, a teenager from Texas, who dreams of nothing but taking his crush Joanna to the prom.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1121334/</link>
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			<title>Brunswick</title>
			<description>The beginnings of a story about a girl named Laura Brunswick.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1121329/</link>
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			<title>Vernon Arthur Black</title>
			<description>Short story about an old man named Vernon Arthur Black.  Written for a creative writing class in high school.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1121296/</link>
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			<title>Haydn is Dead But He Turned in His Grave When He Saw This Title</title>
			<description>The beginnings of a short story about the classical composer Joseph Haydn's unexpected visit to the year 2008.  Written in 2008.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1120751/</link>
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			<title>My First University Audition</title>
			<description>A story about my first audition for a university music program; University of Toronto (Canada).  It was a stressful audition.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1120613/</link>
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			<title>Possess Your Heart</title>
			<description>A love story based on Death Cab for Cutie's song &quot;I Will Possess Your Heart.&quot;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1120123/</link>
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			<title>Wallflower</title>
			<description>A poem about shyness and the stigma attached to it.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1120116/</link>
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			<title>The Dream of Court Church</title>
			<description>A poem about a weird dream I have been having since I was a child.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1120000/</link>
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			<title>The Cruel Cookie Cutter</title>
			<description>A rebellion against rules and restrictions.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1119999/</link>
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			<title>The Boring One</title>
			<description>A love song.  This guy at my former workplace was always asking me about myself and I wondered why he was so interested since I think I'm a pretty boring person.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1119987/</link>
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			<title>Victoria's London</title>
			<description>A poem about Victorian London; a fascinating and deeply disturbing subject.  This poem also deals with the East End of London; Jack the Ripper's playground...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1119977/</link>
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			<title>Settle</title>
			<description>A love song about not settling for less.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1119966/</link>
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			<title>What You Wish May Not Be What You Want</title>
			<description>Love poem.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/naomibloom16/1119724/</link>
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