Frederick fished, fairly fraught from ferocious
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Frederick fished, fairly fraught from ferocious food. Forgiving Felicity for fondly following Frank, Frederick fastened feathers for fast flight. Frederick flew freely from Franc
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Feeling free, feeling far from facing the true world. Going home.
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Unfortunately, home faced the world. But I would persevere, on my small floating green moon with its leaping brooks and wildflowers. My hobbit-like cottage nestled in a hollow,
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washed-up blue whale where it's teeth served as ornaments pinned up around the hovel. Everyday I looked out on the green, rocky terrain and wondered how it got here to begin with.
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Maybe when I answered that Craig's List ad, "Hermit wanted: Decent Pay, Room and Board. Willing to relocate to Whale's Ruin Bay." I sat making circles with the sea shells.
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I had a lot to think about. I shouldn't have left Cheyenne, I decided, pushing the shells around thoughtfully. I realized I had subconsciously spelled out a message in the sand:
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"OMG WTF LOL BBQ". My subconscious was apparently every bit as inane and hopeless as the rest of the Internet. So I went back to my musing. "Ah, what I wouldn't give for a good
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night kiss from Sheila before we go to sleep. She just switches the light off without a sound and sleeps facing away from me." Then I added " sometimes in the middle of the night s
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he cries quietly. Sheila thinks I can't hear but I can." Then at the back of the audience, a small vole put up its paw & squeaked, "When is the interval? I want ice cream." I was
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confused, talking voles? Mute clairvoyants? Silent tears? Then I understood:This world with its golden spotlight & starstreaked midnight curtain is a stage, and we are the players.
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- 2014-06-12 07:46:07
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- 2015-04-16 16:44:00
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Krammy Apr 10 2015 @ 09:22
@Chaz I think you misread it as "I" rather than "it".
Chaz Apr 10 2015 @ 12:09
Curses: That's what I get for speed reading folds. :)
SlimWhitman Apr 16 2015 @ 16:45
Huh? I just completed this, but there are already likes and comments?
KieferSkunk Apr 16 2015 @ 17:15
That's strange - those comments are almost a week old, too.
KieferSkunk Apr 16 2015 @ 17:16
I do like your ending, though, Slim. :)
Krammy Apr 16 2015 @ 17:35
Good guy admin removed some folds that were too trolly for the site, so the game got back into play again. :)
SlimWhitman Apr 17 2015 @ 04:20
Thanks KieferSkunk. It was a bit of a copout - I couldn't figure out lucielucie's fold and just went with the poetic.
lucielucie Apr 17 2015 @ 10:33
I put my HEART and my SOUL into that fold. fyi
zxvasdf Apr 17 2015 @ 16:01
Your heart and soul had ice cream on the brain
SlimWhitman Apr 17 2015 @ 17:40
Ben & Jerry's Vole-a-tail mix?
lucielucie Apr 18 2015 @ 05:21
Mmmm... I like the crunch from the tiny bones...