Tessa
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1oo Words – Elena
Elena’s Original Writing: I worry. Careless summer concludes. I sleep, conscious: Spotted toads ooze, Bumpy, Plucky, Nauseating. Once colorful, since cold: progress, my own sabotage Materialistic, unwieldy, breakable. I chase hollow thrones, frantic – Burn with steady anger, Boast. The decay is gentle, secretive. The elite explain, identify, hypnotize: lying – They vie, rule, yoke, Continue reading
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100 Words – Tessa
Tessa’s original writing: Spotted Summer Toad A Fantastical Ancient Food Blog Ingredients: Cold Yoke Cream Peep Carriage Neatly shape the cold yoke. Secure the yoke and drop it into the cream. Place the ooze on the stove. You may need to adjust the substance by scorching it frantically, but it is breakable and can burn. Continue reading
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Dragon’s Belly
by Tessa Permar I sit carving another tooth. This one came down the gullet 3 meals ago, along with a rabbit, an entire wheat field, and half of a moose. None of them in tact, but I am able to pick at the moose meat which retained a nice char from her fiery breath. The Continue reading
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How to Be an Islander
By Tessa Permar Salt, sand, moss, dewdrop webs, that collective cicada engine sound, thick tall sick-looking trees, crinkled fragile eyes, cutting themselves from tears with belittling jokes. Family men, the round bulge of their jaws jutting toward the next thing they have to do. A lot of witches. Young witches spinning indigo yarn, bearded ladies Continue reading
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A Vineyard Sail
By Tessa Permar Feet browned like an expensive wood stain, with callouses softened by sand, I watched him alight on the rim of the vessel like a spring bug on a leaf. There are two of them, old friends. One brought me roses last week. The other I’ve been sleeping with since July. It’s now Continue reading
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So, we wrote a book
It seems a little silly to be launching this blog with a post about how we wrote a book. We originally intended to post on this blog a few times before the end of 2023, but it turns out that writing a book takes a lot of time and attention. So here we are. We Continue reading
