06-26-2006, 04:35 PM | #1 |
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Atmosphere
Mama had a baby and his head popped off. We did all that we could to try and re-attach it. I couldn't do it so I picked it up and threw it off the building, just to see if all the children were quick enough to catch it.
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06-26-2006, 05:55 PM | #2 |
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When I was kid I knew another kid who owned one of those Stretch Armstrong action figures, which were made of gel and you can pull the arms and legs as hard as you can. When a bunch of us were over at my house I borrowed Stretch Armstrong when his owner wasn't looking and ran into my sister's room and shut the door. I was curious to see if he had anything else other than his arms and legs that I could pull, so I yanked his panties off.
God, was I thoroughly disappointed that day.
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06-26-2006, 10:48 PM | #3 |
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The wind blew hard across the beach, carrying with it the salty tang of the Atlantic mingled with the rich, slightly fetid smell of low tide. Loose grains of sand appeared to run before the wind's onslaught, forming rills and patterns like those found on the bed of a fast moving stream. Where the sand was blown into the fast-shrinking tidal pools, it floated briefly on the surface giving the pools the appearance of frosted glass at their edges.
Although the sun shone brightly from the cloudless sky above, the wind was cold and relentless. The few strollers on the beach were bundled against it, with only the smallest possible areas of skin exposed as they hurriedly completed their daily seaside constitutionals, bent and uncommunicative to any passerby they might meet. In the lee of a sand dune hollowed out by the erosion of a recent spring tide, I sat protected from the wind in a small pocket of warm still air. I watched as the sand blew over my head to land at my feet and resume it's wind-driven voyage into the bay. I saw a few stray gulls hang motionless in the wind above me, their sharp eyes ever alert for a stranded fish or stray tidbit to nibble on, but even they couldn't stand the wind for long and soon landed on the hard sand to stand one-legged and rest for a while.
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06-27-2006, 12:06 AM | #4 |
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Zippity click.
Zippity click. Zippity click. And the winds cried out, Zippity click. "Let thy swords be dormant!" Zippity click. "How may the bird's wings fall..." Zippity click. Zippity click. Zippity click. And the earth cried out, Zippity click. "Let thy birds live sadly!" Zippity click. "But never leave the heart..." Zippity click. Zippity click. Zippity click. And the trees cried out, Zippity clang? "Let thy heart grow truly!" Zippity- clang. "And never rest the sword..." Zippity... click. Zippity click. Zippity click. Zippity click. |
06-27-2006, 03:30 AM | #5 | |
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06-27-2006, 03:37 AM | #6 | |
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Please, please, my dear friend, Scott - please make time in your life to write. The world needs to know the beauty you see, and so eloquently describe. There are so few who possess such talent. M
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06-27-2006, 03:43 AM | #7 |
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Wait- is this about something in particular? I thought we were just supposed to write atmospheric nonsense.
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06-27-2006, 03:46 AM | #8 | |
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06-27-2006, 03:57 AM | #9 |
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Who's Scott again?
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06-27-2006, 04:12 AM | #10 | |
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06-27-2006, 04:12 AM | #11 | |
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06-27-2006, 04:17 AM | #12 |
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I was kidding. I just have a problem reading things with lots of little details. When I try reading his post, my brain shuts off.
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06-27-2006, 04:39 AM | #13 |
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I understand - I'm that way with poetry - anything longer than a limerick, and it loses me. Scott's descriptions capture me, though, even though sometimes in a book, descriptions are boring. He wrote one once about a dream sequence that made you feel like you were standing beside him.
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06-27-2006, 04:46 AM | #14 |
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Wasn't Atmosphere a Russ Abbott song? What a classic.
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06-27-2006, 06:38 AM | #16 |
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Oops! Space Cadet Scott strikes again!
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06-27-2006, 06:47 AM | #17 | |
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You're truly gifted in many ways.
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06-27-2006, 07:02 AM | #18 |
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Hey! glad to see you back as Kingz!
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06-28-2006, 03:59 AM | #19 | |
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07-24-2006, 02:24 PM | #20 |
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Cause you know what they say about honey bears, when you shave off all their baby hairs?
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