http://slow.writerscafe.org/DCTdesigns The original writings of author DCT ponderings en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1775996798 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 Flash Fiction story written for Friday Fictioneers (100 word limit) http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1235144/ A double Etheree inspired by Michael Drainsfield's poem 'After a birthday' http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1228353/ Flash Fiction http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1228351/ Here I go again like the first time falling for you word by word, lineby line and in between. I refrain from casting my feelings upon each page astomorrows turn into today. I don’t want my admonitions to tip the scales ofyour destiny so I hold them tight-lips sealed. And audaciously dare.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1221099/ In Dandelion breathyou see a weed, I wishesI blow on it for both of us.My glass nearly emptiedYou fill me back upsaying "silly, it's still half full"You zig and I zagyour left is my right reversedWhat a couple we makemismatched pair of socks http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1221052/ Grains of SandThis mountain I climbIs a glass houseTime fades awayThe hours pass swiftly I’m drowningPockets full of rocks http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1221049/ RebootI think the midlife crisis has a bum rap perhaps since it isoften associated with convertibles and younger woman, depression and reckless behaviors.But there is a lot to be said for assessing your life, achievements, dreams, career,work-life balance, romance, and health- physical as .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1210637/ Angela Vasquez-Giroux poses this question “What if names, nicknames, don’t simply attach a series of sounds to make it easier to communicate, but actually somehow denote and in turn FORM the essence of the thing they’re pointing to?” In her article The importance of bein.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1209333/ This is a tribute to Keats and the movie Bright Star http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1208069/ Alphabet Soup-for the love of words A is for the Audacious child I was dreaming of �" aphrodisiacswith amaranth eyes swimming the Azure sea searching for anemone with their bestfriend Aardvark. Be Bodacious I say. It was the 80s baby…All summer my cou.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1202907/  How did you perceived the spaces between  You and meWhen did our colors fade to the background?To a life you no longer want, a life of chainsThe role you gave me has grown so small.Script old,      remembered,    &nbs.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1202901/ We are the authors            Theinventors            The editors            ThepublishersLet’s scrawl our st.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1202899/ I locked it away Safe in this boxMy hopelessly idealist Romantic heartFor it’s grown weary I barricaded the Door Dead bolt fastened tightYou can’t have the keyI'm not ready to be reckless,I'm safe here insidewhere there are no endings&nbsp.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1202890/ Inspired by my Friend Emily's blog and her fight with cancer. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1199050/ I have been restless of late. Disquieted by this life and longing for my college days. Not because they were particularly great. Oh contraire! I yearn for the sense of release I had found during those days, when restless and unable to sleep, for my quiet place, where I let loose the pent up feelings.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1197449/ Childhood sweetheart, you hold all his secretsEven now your place is still set upon his tableSo where do I fit in? Between the cracks of your loveAm I only the shiny new toy he calls girlfriend?Is that all we'll ever be?  But I want morethan your hand me downs, no scraps of a man.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1197010/ Dreamingsleepless, afloatturning, grasping, callingIm' here in the dark unendingAwake http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1196773/ The great divide http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1196160/ This is an entry written from my blog- A rant......to vent. The picture is my drawing. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1194831/ Melancholy keys offer us a melody, a sultry voice of ache, lyricscoaxing redemption.It’s all part of our story’s lyric filling the hollows of mysoul. It’s refrain slowly circling back to where our words began. And the musicit goes and goes around and around and around in .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1194096/ Give me love shower me in warmth the breath of Godsacred words burn my lipsbursting forth between heartbeats Wrapped in the starsEver changing, everfixedLet’s Soak up the moonSo I may walk in the light If you cannotGive me loveThen gi.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1192961/ Spiritual energy no longer dormant http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1192937/ A strip tease http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1192906/ This will offend many http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1192683/ The essence of you lingersIn the small of my backThe swell, the dull acheThe Soft place you once landed The essence of you lingersDeeply embedded between our sheetsIn the silent spaces between bodiesno longer filling the bed The essence of you linger.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1192682/ It's fragile at it's very best http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1192426/ Discovered on the note pad of Physicist Karl Schwarzschild in the trenches of the first world war. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1191661/ I wrote this then came across this short film Dysenchanted-Support Group of Fairy Tale Women. I'm not as original as I thought. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HjBdoCnZFqM http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1191187/ The matrix awakened an ancient idea I suppose for our youth to recallWhat the Greeks always knew the choice was their birth rite Drink of the river Lethe Walk the earth another timeDrink from the MnemosyneLive in Elysian Fields forever http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1190062/ I have not forgotten http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1190061/ Pieces that have yet to find their Poem http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1190043/ Your blood flows though meAfter all you’re my fatherNow Leukemia? http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1190038/ A Warning to All Deep Sea Divers http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1189971/ The idea of a shaved head as crystal ball was inspired by WC writer Horizon K in her poem First Kiss. Of course her tale was more the happily ever after type. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1189663/ This was my sister’s third call since we announced we weredating.  A year ago when he broke it offwith her my mother had already cut into me with the precision only a mother canwield. “When your sister is hurting you hold their hand while she has an abortion.”How did m.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1188525/ This is the darker side of Henna which so few know. Worse yet is those today who meet such a fate burned at the hand of his mother. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1188478/ I no longer speak half-God but I still dream of firefly lanterns and cricket serenades of Cicada warnings and bull frog brigades http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1188306/ A worn out path covered with pine needles wound its waythrough the trees. Branches hung over creating cathedral arches climbing towards the sky and then swooping back towards the ground. Shafts of light pokedthrough the green like stain glass rosaries dancing across my feet. The slightest breeze.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1185984/ There's no place like home http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1185981/ Knock Knock http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1185976/ For Bomma http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1185934/ Flash Fiction http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1185907/ He laughed and said,"You know what they say about bully riding? It's not a matter of whether you get hurt, it's simply a matter of when." This ended our discussion passion versus logic in love. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1184574/ "I want a different life"- A Story of emancipation http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1184573/ A suitor was once warned http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1184570/ Sparked by the idea of the freebie list from Friends. To which, when shared, my friend DT said "Ah you like the thinking Girl's man". http://www.friends-tv.org/zz305.html http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1183801/ For CKB http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1182527/ Riding the volcano's edge http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1182525/ Haiku http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1182019/ Up, downAround it goes.Children sing out with gleePorcelain dreams of days to comeEvolving http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/DCTdesigns/1182017/