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Sunday Experiment: Maaawiage
Today, is Sunday (barely). DWWP (drinkerswithwritingproblems.com) has allocated Sundays to be random picture day since we don’t have a regular Sunday writer. However, today, two good friends of DWWP...
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Dave Hughes: Rage
The rage comes, like red water down an arroyo. Unstoppable. Out of thin air. I stagger under its weight, crushing, Smashing all, love won, things treasured, trust built brick by brick. It recedes ....
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Dave Hughes: Filler
My poetry doesn’t change a thing, but I think it knows why. My poetry isn’t hung over , but I think it will be. My poetry has made bad decisions, But not enough of them. My poetry doesn’t get me laid ,...
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Kirk Novak – Tortilla Love
I like to eat. My wife saw me for the first time in nearly two months and said, “Somebody’s put on some weight!” I love food. I believe it is possible to be in love with someone and love food at the...
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Kim Nelson: Home
We dream of homes with cozy rooms and flowering gardens, a place for everything, a place for us. A thing I didn’t used to let myself want. I could only see the tornados in their path, the broken hearts...
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Kirk Novak: Ten Tips to Build Confidence for Losers
I learned that you can’t get by acting with confidence alone. Puffing out your chest, scratching the ground with your foot like a rooster, and making aggressive noises with only get you so far when you...
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Dave Hughes: Don’t Play with Dead Things
You shouldn’t, everyone knows that. It’s a knowledge for most mammals. Things that have expired, are to be left unmolested. It runs deep, a law of nature, the base understanding that, to do so will do...
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Elizabeth Gomez: 8 Pro Tips to Make Marriage Work
While some people have had zero or one marriages, I have been married twice. Basically, this makes me an expert on marriage because I’ve had more than most of you. I understand that I’m no Zsa Zsa...
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Anita Mechler: My Musical Guilty Pleasure
[This is a transcript of an original piece that I performed at the storytelling show, “Is This A Thing?” on October 13, 2014.] It was a magical evening in all the ways that a 12-year-old girl wearing a...
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Dave Hughes: Michelle
No, is the answer to your musing, I would not want it back the way it was. We lay, our legs entwined. Fingers reading the braille of each other’s face. What is more pleasing to our eye? We don’t care...
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Emily Lund: 10 Signs You Might Need a Second Marriage
Everyone is entitled to a practice marriage. For a lot of us, we need to practice things before we achieve perfection. Others of us get it right the first time. I applaud you for your stellar...
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Conor Cawley: Modern Love and Corinthians 13:4-8
I went to two weddings in one day last week. In addition to the unconditional love, the outpouring of familial support and the seemingly endless open bars I was privileged to, I also heard a passage...
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Murphy Row: Top 10 People NOT to Be at a Wedding
Recently, attending an incredibly elegant wedding on lake Michigan made me feel a little out of place. Elegance and formality do not inherently make me uncomfortable, I can hold my own with the best of...
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Sandra Benedetto: Driving Lessons
She wasn’t entirely ready for this and had a hard time believing her dad was, but there they were in the empty parking lot of his office building on a Saturday for her first driving lesson. The...
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Murphy Row: Who Rescued Who?
We rescued a dog. Now I am going to blog about it. I am not blogging about my dog in an attempt to garner a wider audience. I am not trying to use my dog because she will be more popular online than...
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Murphy Row: Coffee, One Cream
Picture Love as a cup of coffee, rich and complex, bold and enticing. Coffee is longed for each day by those of us that are used to having it. Coffee exists as a labor of love from countless names...
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Emily Lund: All Good Deeds
I was in Salt Lake City for work, and who I assume to be a vagrant Mormon, broke into the car I was driving and stole all my stuff. My laptop, my passport, social security card, prescriptions, eye...
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Kirk Novak: 10 Fucking Things You Wish You Had Fucking Known When You Were...
I’m getting pretty fucking old. That means my value as a fucking human being is pretty fucking diminished in our fucking youth-oriented society. All that is left to do now is fucking sit around and...
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Conor Cawley: Modern Love and Corinthians 13:4-8 (Repost)
Weddings are filled with unconditional love, familial support and an endless supply of alcohol. Similarly common at weddings is a section from the Bible that pertains to love. This passage, found in...
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Kim Nelson: Valentine’s Day
The first time I saw a dead body, it was Valentine’s Day night. I was 24, drunk, and had been fighting with my boyfriend on the cusp of him leaving me. The night started at a bar in Pilsen, and once my...
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