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Atlantis, or the Birth of a Naturalist
- - - Everything felt so full of meaning back then; our heavy steps kicked up mountains. What we shouted left a thick echo residue - ghosts guarding truths. When we sang the dead awoke and doors and window panes rattl… -
It's Linktastic
My, my:Tranquility BayMore info and links on the WikiSuch blatant Orwellianism seems almost necessarily fictitious. And yet, somehow, is also strangely reminiscent of *some* of my youthcamp - and related - memories (thou… -
Youth Camp 6: Hell House
I took a last, long drag on my hot cocoa and tossed the cup away, checking the laser sight again on my M16 out of nervousness as much as out of habit. It was cold tonight, and from the smell of the air it wo… -
Youth Camp 4
I don't know whose idea it was to try and keep the milk refrigerated by setting it on the sloped vents of the air conditioning unit, but when I returned from the beach - sweating and dejected, sand in my hair - the room … -
Youth Camp 3 (or, my other self is way too cool for me)
Lesson one: sand makes jumping and running exponentially more difficult.Lesson two: pretending you're good at volleyball doesn't actually mean anythingfor your performance as a player.Lesson three: "when in doubt, dive!"… -
Youth Camp, Part 2.5: A Relfection
He is a smoke shadow on the shore. He is a silhouette. He is an outline, no depth, no dimension – an empty thing leaving a sand trail. He is a new moon phantom haunting the vacant coast. He is a stencil figure, an etchin… -
Youth Camp, Part 2
The beach flew in through open crack windows, riding the hot air, squinting morning eyes, snatching the yawns from our throats with its flat-land coasts and orange skies that stretched beyond the horizon. One by one we l… -
Youth Camp, Part 1
Wet window towns swerved past the bus, appearing from nowhere, coalescing from a twilight mist. Drips snaking slowly crisscrossed in front of rocking chair evenings and little league dreams rained away that drifted by…
TheLittleKappa
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- Name: Ben
- Country: United States
- State: Pennsylvania
- Metro: Philadelphia
- Birthday: 11/3/1985
- Gender: Male
- Member Since: 4/23/2005
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Stillborn Heartson; or how assemble an nuclear warhead for dummies.
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Milestones in Fantasy Dialogue
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