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<title>The Human Way (Revised)</title>
		<description>A poem about my struggles socializing and connecting.</description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:12:52 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Friday 13</title>
		<description>A limerick about my thoughts on Friday the 13th</description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:03:12 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Unwanted dispositional detachment</title>
		<description>There comes certain times when the soul splits TW: dark thoughts</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:30:36 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Six</title>
		<description>Burning, burning</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:21:16 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Hunger</title>
		<description>Flash Fiction, 587 words. He was really hungry, he just didn&#39;t know why. </description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:52:35 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Five Claws and a Smile</title>
		<description>The Cat in the Hat leaves a message for two teens.</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:28:29 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Heaven</title>
		<description>Poem about some feelings</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:16:32 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Boating Reverie</title>
		<description>A dark poem</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 02:15:22 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>A heart poisoned by scorn</title>
		<description>A young man, abused by his father and loved by a friend, is fearful of the future.</description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:04:59 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Dollhouse</title>
		<description>Objectification </description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:45:38 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Molly </title>
		<description>Institutional control and betrayal.</description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:43:34 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>On running away</title>
		<description>This is a Haiku about people crossing the street.</description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:27:02 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Jaguar</title>
		<description>The loss of self through someone else.</description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:35:13 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>More Poet&#39;s Place Poems</title>
		<description>More Poet&#39;s Place Poems and Related Poems</description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:54:58 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>A Collection of Flash Fiction</title>
		<description>Bits and pieces that Gio Aranda has written over time.</description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:29:21 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Sam and his dad</title>
		<description>This is about a boy named Sam. He is with his dad, and his mother is in Miami for work.</description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:40:01 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>I love you more</title>
		<description>Love is a wonderful kind of magic. It&#39;s too bad when it goes too far.</description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:31:05 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Papa...</title>
		<description>writer&#39;s cramp entry due 1&#47;29&#47;22</description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:51:59 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>When Darkness Triumphs: The prologue</title>
		<description>A war between two anicient armies...</description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:21:42 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Silent Child</title>
		<description>A poem based on abuse.</description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 14:34:33 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Author&#39;s dark life or light </title>
		<description>Welcome to the author&#39;s mind and her world where you can feel and experience every emotion</description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 05:51:54 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Take me back</title>
		<description>Stuck in the attic. A poem.</description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:11:31 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Buried Treasure</title>
		<description>A glimmer of gold shone through the black dirt.</description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:19:48 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Until the stars explode</title>
		<description>Poem about fear and isolation.</description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:10:49 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Salesman</title>
		<description>Selling door-to-door can be gruesome work</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:48:37 EST</pubDate>
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<title>No Soft Place to Land</title>
		<description>A dark... a little dramatic, a little raw--but still me</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:59:30 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Eye of the Beholder- 998 Words- 3&#47;5&#47;26</title>
		<description>A story of anger, frustration, and tragedy.</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:45:20 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Faith</title>
		<description>It was always an SSDD, and will always be.</description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:02:03 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Conscience...</title>
		<description>The Witness Who Is Not Fooled!</description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:55:02 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Yung Lee: Chapter III</title>
		<description>Yung Lee faces his deadliest villain yet, causing him to suffer his first big loss.</description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:22:45 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Alone</title>
		<description>Something I wanted to share...</description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:02:33 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Jealousy</title>
		<description>An ancient wood grew on my tongue.</description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 11:38:51 EST</pubDate>
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<title>A Kiss Carved in Stone</title>
		<description>A lonely man finds himself in a situation beyond reality.</description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 23:58:07 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Creeton&#39;s Sword C1</title>
		<description>my father sold my mother to a slaver, as collateral for a bet. He lost.</description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:02:46 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Punch, Shove, and Belittle Buffet</title>
		<description>Slather on the charm, make them believe every word.</description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:02:19 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Child of my father</title>
		<description>Memory informs identity, purpose and origin story. What if that is stripped away?</description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:41:35 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Hellstock Valentine</title>
		<description>A demon learns about love at a hellish festival. </description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:25:07 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Red</title>
		<description>Van Gogh cut his ear, so he could hear better?</description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:00:31 EST</pubDate>
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<title>If I Vanished</title>
		<description>Women have vanished in my town lately and I wonder if this is how they might&#226;ve felt</description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:36:38 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Apocalyptic foreshortening</title>
		<description>Documenting the proportions of illusion: distorting reality in words TW: Dark thoughts</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:30:16 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Slave</title>
		<description>A call for salvation</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:49:41 EST</pubDate>
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<title>You Just Left</title>
		<description>A lonely figure walks away as love fades into silence and shadow.</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:21:01 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Shadowbound</title>
		<description>A heart falls into darkness as the light slowly fades away.</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:01:21 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Frayed</title>
		<description>You have broken me</description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:20:45 EST</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:03:34 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Of broken locks and fallen branches</title>
		<description>We let the voices in our head become deafening. They escape onto paper. TW: dark thoughts</description>
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<title>Am I Trending?</title>
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<title>The Wife</title>
		<description>She was so self-assured. But could she be trusted?</description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:32:29 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Silent Partner</title>
		<description>Love means never having to say a thing.</description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:17:21 EST</pubDate>
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