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		<description>The original writings of author roarke</description>
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			<title>Cat Naps</title>
			<description>short story,, prose, its up to you. Me I just write the stuff. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2951976/</link>
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			<title>Parades</title>
			<description>a kind of prose about fabulist parades</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2951973/</link>
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			<title>RR X-ing</title>
			<description>could of happened, maybe it did. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2951972/</link>
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			<title>Me and Junior</title>
			<description>a magician acts as big brother to a floundering adolescent</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2950965/</link>
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			<title>Another Waste Basket Bio</title>
			<description>Kinda self explanatory. A cautionary tale. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2893963/</link>
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			<title>Pie Beats Hawk</title>
			<description>It&amp;rsquo;s a small world, late afternoon in a neighborhood diner. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2893882/</link>
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			<title>It&amp;rsquo;s a Cryin&amp;rsquo; Shame</title>
			<description>Dissertation on he state of Americana&amp;hellip;things ain&amp;rsquo;t what they used to be. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2892994/</link>
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			<title>Rock, Paper, Scissors</title>
			<description>An essay pondering whether &amp;ldquo;rock&amp;rdquo; really does beat everything&amp;hellip;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2892899/</link>
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			<title>Heroes in Suburbia</title>
			<description>What happened to the heroes? </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2890746/</link>
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			<title>Genie in the Lamp</title>
			<description>Simple story of a solitary man who collects bits and bobs. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2890649/</link>
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			<title>Beer Can Guy</title>
			<description>Some folk don&amp;rsquo;t know no better&amp;hellip;</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2890109/</link>
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			<title>Grime Rhyme</title>
			<description>Repurposing cliches&amp;hellip;.its a thing&amp;hellip;. No, really. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2890100/</link>
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			<title>To Be A Story or Not To Be A Story</title>
			<description>A little ditty about Bob.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2890079/</link>
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			<title>2024 Forest Breadcrumbs</title>
			<description>A mythical journey even Voltaire would be proud of. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2889937/</link>
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			<title>Trippin&amp;rsquo; Down the Cobblestones</title>
			<description>Taking a mental sabbatical. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2852057/</link>
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			<title>Porcelain Dimension</title>
			<description>Surreal sci-fi concerning public washrooms</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2816397/</link>
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			<title>I Never Got My Egg Rolls</title>
			<description>A dating couple go out for Chinese food. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2816099/</link>
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			<title>Fortune Cookie</title>
			<description>Two young men meet for lunch and read their fortune cookies. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2816098/</link>
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			<title>Cycles</title>
			<description>Prose</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2813362/</link>
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			<title>Amusement Park</title>
			<description>A couple visit an amusement park.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2810281/</link>
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			<title>Time Was</title>
			<description>How simple that preface. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2771521/</link>
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			<title>The Troll of Troy</title>
			<description>Just another lazy day in our part of the woods. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2770702/</link>
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			<title>Of Six Billion Moments</title>
			<description>Enabling that inner dialogue. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2768761/</link>
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			<title>Know Thy Self</title>
			<description>A little inner dialogue. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2768758/</link>
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			<title>Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road</title>
			<description>A hitchhiker contemplates his plight after an odd occurrence.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2767336/</link>
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			<title>&quot;Nuts!&quot;</title>
			<description>I don't think there is a description....</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2762167/</link>
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			<title>In the Right Place</title>
			<description>Prose poem about being in the right place. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2762166/</link>
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			<title>Let It Be</title>
			<description>Prose about something... </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2762164/</link>
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			<title>Home</title>
			<description>prose about home</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2762163/</link>
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			<title>Doing Lunch</title>
			<description>An editor and his best friend have lunch and discuss projects...</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2759576/</link>
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			<title>I Was Wrong</title>
			<description>A short story in the Fabulist genre about a man thinking the world is ending. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2554755/</link>
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			<title>Art Museum</title>
			<description>Retired military man volunteers as an art museum guide and keeps order in his section of the museum. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2488358/</link>
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			<title>New Year</title>
			<description>A reflection on the new year</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2158185/</link>
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			<title>Spooled Loose</title>
			<description>Prose poem, fabulist fiction</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2147090/</link>
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			<title>A Hot Shower</title>
			<description> For me anymore, a good hot shower is essential in attempting to melt away all the morning kinks and hitches that encumber my aging frame. Gone are the days of just jumping out of bed and hitting it- </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2144360/</link>
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			<title>Texas Drawl</title>
			<description>One hot Texas afternoon. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2116938/</link>
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			<title>My Wife's Trip to Town</title>
			<description> My lovely, ever patient wife went to town today. The mid morning sky was chromed in classic Montana blue as a summer breeze performed a Burlesque fan dance through the forest. She had some errands to</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2113701/</link>
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			<title>Belief</title>
			<description>Poetry</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2109239/</link>
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			<title>Laundromat Diaries Part Five</title>
			<description>The last entry in the Laundromat Diaries series. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2056853/</link>
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			<title>Laundromat Diaries Part Four</title>
			<description>The further inner journey while doing laundry in laundromats. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2056847/</link>
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			<title>Laundromat Diaries Part One</title>
			<description>The beginning saga of one man's inner dialogue while doing laundry in laundromats. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/2056844/</link>
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			<title>laundromat Diaries Part 3</title>
			<description>more time passes and is marked by experiences in another laundromat.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/1682539/</link>
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			<title>Laundromat Diaries Part 2</title>
			<description>twenty-something life routines at the flat edge of the world</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/roarke/1668645/</link>
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