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Malaise (Final, Together)

Posted on February 9, 2010 by houstinhobby

Softly…, slowly…, sinking…, down, down, down, into the marsh I go. Enveloping…, engrossing…, encompassing…, down, down, down, it slowly pulls me in. Pulling…, lulling…, rolling…, down, down, down, drifting quietly to slumper. Hoping… joking… floating… down, down, down. Never to … Continue reading →

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Malaise (Final)

Posted on February 8, 2010 by houstinhobby

Hoping… joking… floating… down, down, down. Never to wake again.

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Malaise (3)

Posted on February 5, 2010 by houstinhobby

Pulling…, lulling…, rolling…, down, down, down, drifting quietly to slumper.

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Malaise (2)

Posted on February 3, 2010 by houstinhobby

Enveloping…, engrossing…, encompassing…, down, down, down, it slowly pulls me in.

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Malaise (1)

Posted on February 2, 2010 by houstinhobby

Softly…, slowly…, sinking…, down, down, down, into the marsh I go.

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Did We Win? (7)

Posted on February 1, 2010 by UncleScrew

Silence descends like a heavy blanket. Talking, movement, he’s on the stretcher, his thumb is up. The crowd claps. Just the claps. No yells, no jeers, just the claps. The clock restarts, the battle lines reform, they break and clash … Continue reading →

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Creepy Crawly

Posted on January 27, 2010 by houstinhobby

Sickly sinking in my stomach, something slimy, itchy, scratching, stroking, strolling, slowly sliding, slowly sinking, sinking, scratching, shivers down my spine. Sticky, scratchy, scrappy, stickly arms scrapping down, across, down, shiny shivering slithering pulsing hairs standing on their ends the … Continue reading →

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Creepy Crawly (5)

Posted on January 27, 2010 by houstinhobby

Breath in and out and in and pant, what in hell was that? Eyes tracing, scrolling, crawling, squinting. Not a thing stirs a muscle, not a dust mite moves an inch. Itch, scratch, itch again. Hmm. Back to bed.

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Creepy Crawley (3)

Posted on January 22, 2010 by houstinhobby

My eyes open wide twisting, turning, itching, burning, cluthcing, clawing, screaming, falling, the ground comes up to meet me. Cold, clawing, clutching, ice drifts down my face. tiny, shiny, spiney shivers shake me.

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Creepy Crawley (2)

Posted on January 20, 2010 by houstinhobby

Sticky, scratchy, scrappy, stickly arms scrapping down, across, down, shiny shivering slithering pulsing hairs standing on their ends the sick sinking sunken feeling falling, calling to my brain

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