Emotions as Flags

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Her spoon clinked on the sides of her mug as she poured the sugar into her seeping cup of tea. She was warming up after her wet ride to the coffee shop in NW Portland. “How was the show last night?” she asked the writer, wrapper her fingers around the warm mug. “So good!” he […]

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The Musician

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The writer shook his head quickly after catching himself in a daze staring at the performers’ feet. Under the clench of the banjo’s hypnosis, his eyes slowly moved up the feet of a wooden stool, across some dirty Vans, over a pair of cut-off jeans, focusing on the banjo sitting on a man’s lap. Notes […]

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Dialogue

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The sun shined through the cracks in the blanketing clouds in the sky as they drove to a coffee shop for live music in downtown Portland. The rain had just stopped, and steam danced on the road as the cars drove over. “I can’t wait to fall in love with a girl and marry her,” […]

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