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Category Archives: writing

Conditioned response

You are a Pavlovian mentor I said to him in bed And I your doggie disciple.

Posted byCassandraJuly 7, 2016July 20, 2016Posted inliterary, poetry, snippets, wordplay, writingLeave a comment on Conditioned response

Asleep

Despite ankle wrap, woman at library suggestively dressed. Walks diligently through silent aisles looking for wandering eye. Off in the distance, snoring.

Posted byCassandraJuly 7, 2016Posted inliterary, poems, poetry, snippets, writingLeave a comment on Asleep

Play on words

“An object of booty.” Perhaps a good erotic fiction title.

Posted byCassandraJuly 7, 2016Posted inliterary, poetry, snippets, wordplay, writingLeave a comment on Play on words

The big green straw & other scraps

green straw with astounding girth plunged through lid of fidgety teen’s neon green slushie — Young Mormon children mingling with Filipino barista at cafe table Mother standing inches away, mouth clenched

Posted byCassandraJuly 6, 2016July 6, 2016Posted inliterary, poetry, snippets, wordplay, writingLeave a comment on The big green straw & other scraps

Succulence

succulent — its name derived from the Latin word “sucus,” meaning juice, says Wikipedia. It must be an envied plant status in the world of flora — a botanical Aphrodite  

Posted byCassandraJuly 5, 2016Posted inliterary, poems, poetry, snippets, wordplay, writingLeave a comment on Succulence

Bookstore voyeur

Dishy brunette: sprawled on floor browsing books on nooky in sexuality section Me: discreetly soaking up the serendipity from behind “Math Squared: 100 Concepts You Should Know,” fished indiscriminately from clearance bin

Posted byCassandraJuly 5, 2016July 5, 2016Posted inliterary, poems, poetry, wordplay, writingLeave a comment on Bookstore voyeur

Desert highway haiku

On the sun-hazy Vegas highway horizon in July, a crawling cop car

Posted byCassandraJuly 4, 2016July 4, 2016Posted inhaiku, literary, poems, poetry, wordplay, writingLeave a comment on Desert highway haiku

story of eve

Her hungry cat nagging at her feet, Eve applies lipstick in her bathroom mirror before getting dressed for work During rush hour after polishing off her ice coffee from Slave to the Grind, she applies lipstick in her tropical turquoise classic Mustang, which carries a few dings but is in otherwise impressive shape

Posted byCassandraJuly 3, 2016October 18, 2016Posted inFlash Fiction, narrative, poems, poetry, prose, snippets, writingLeave a comment on story of eve

Accumulated words & phrases

Alterection Rattled function — Do Simon & Garfunkel collect royalty fees on the word “dappled”? What about “organdy” and “crinoline”? — The I-do-I duality — Lazybee  

Posted byCassandraJuly 2, 2016July 2, 2016Posted inliterary, poetry, snippets, wordplay, writingLeave a comment on Accumulated words & phrases

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