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Editors’ Choice: Week of January 9-13, 2012

Every week, our IndieInk Writing Challenge draws the most brilliant and imaginative writers who craft the most creative and interesting posts — and many of these submissions just knock the editors’ collective socks off. And so, the editorial staff decided to get together and select one submission weekly to feature as our “Editors’ Choice.” Read more

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Delicate

The world just seemed gray to me as I made my way listlessly through my day. Read more

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The Bone Structure of the Landscape

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Bus Stop

As I stand, waiting, underneath a rare burst of wintertime sunshine, a homeless man, draped in an enormous coat, clutching a beer can inconspicuously cloaked in a wrinkled paper bag, hovers beneath the bus shelter beside me.

Nothing out of the ordinary in this city. Read more

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Hyperbolic Metaphore: Old Man Winter & Persephone

Shortly after November, Old Man Winter pulled on his best December, a solid pair of ice-toed butt-kicking boots. He started tromping around the Midwest and Eastern Seaboard like a cantankerous old coot, ranting and raving like a lunatic while he liberally dumped shovelfuls of snow and ice everywhere he could. Read more

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Only One

He runs his fingers through his hair and looks out his window.
Everything is covered with a good five inches of snow.
He didn’t know it was coming.
He never pays attention to weather forecasts.
Why worry about things you can’t control?
Still… it is a lot of snow. Read more

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