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Steve Shilstone

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STEEP HIKE #poetry going up hill is grand with an extra lung at hand if you must do with a paltry two frequent rests are called for, it’s true crawling on hands and knees may prevent a cardiac seize really it might be best to remain at home and rest

12:01 pm · October 20, 2019

Steve Shilstone

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October #gaia pic.twitter.com/1HZKUANSLq

11:55 am · October 20, 2019

Steve Shilstone

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he shot and froze, save for the darting of his eyes. Spying a stack of acorns on the table, he leapt and settled down to nibble. They were married happily for 82 years and raised 16 children.

11:54 am · October 19, 2019

Steve Shilstone

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lettuce leaf. She brought it to her mouth and consumed it, moving her jaw in lazy rhythm, chewing. Meanwhile, the groom who was once a squirrel zipped and froze, zipped and froze, corner to corner, room to room, upstairs and down, searching for he knew not what. Into the kitchen

11:54 am · October 19, 2019

Steve Shilstone

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THE BRIDE AND GROOM #dada #flashfiction The bride who was once a turtle moved slowly down the hall and into the kitchen. Opening the refrigerator door, she paused and thought, blinking her eyes twice during the three minutes of subsequent silence. She sighed and reached for a

11:54 am · October 19, 2019

Steve Shilstone

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4 of 5 stars to The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson goodreads.com/review/show/30…

10:15 pm · October 18, 2019

Steve Shilstone

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#dada I have a very famous painter here, Sal Dali. Sal, when painting a room, is it best to do the trim first, then the walls, or the reverse of whatever I just said? Dali: Fish. Fish? Dali: FISH! Okay, I didn’t … Well, moving along, what’s your favorite fish? Dali: An owl.

11:47 am · October 18, 2019

Steve Shilstone

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chorus. The balloon drifted from sight and, eventually, from mind.

11:46 am · October 17, 2019

Steve Shilstone

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bailiff grabbed the defendant by scruff of neck and seat of pants and flung him from the basket. ‘Who’s for tea then?’ said the judge. A song of good fellowship rang out from the balloon, causing the populace below to look up. A few of the bolder pedestrians joined in on the

11:46 am · October 17, 2019

Steve Shilstone

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THE TRIAL BALLOON #dada #flashfiction The trial balloon floated over the rooftops of London. The judge asked the jury if they had reached a verdict. The jury foreman replied, ‘Yes, Your Honor, we find the defendant guilty.’ ‘Right,’ said the judge. ‘Bailiff, do your duty.’ The

11:46 am · October 17, 2019

Steve Shilstone

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REJECTED MYSTERY TITLES #dada 1. The Chamber Pot Affair 2. The Case of the Laughing Snail 3. Death Wore Slippers

11:42 am · October 16, 2019

Steve Shilstone

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HEPBURN #dada As her alter ego, Silver Flying Insect, Kate: tended bar in a Santa Monica dive. fought for truth, justice and Howard Hughes. confronted the IRS. outwitted Ginger Rogers. made Stan Laurel cry. pic.twitter.com/AGRv8ey6iy

11:44 am · October 15, 2019

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its leathery hide, wounding it to the soul. Never more would any creature dare doubt the Idle Hand’s productivity. And so it went for three solid weeks and one liquid week until the Idle Hand fluttered to rest gently and spend its remaining years idling and acting as a playground

11:56 am · October 14, 2019

Steve Shilstone

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THE IDLE HAND #dada #flashfiction Sweat flew from the Idle Hand's brow, drenching the nearby sleeping crofters. In a frenzied whirl, it galloped from yon to hither carrying and depositing loads of carrion. For, you see, constant mockery had penetrated deep to the heart beneath

11:56 am · October 14, 2019

Steve Shilstone

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MARK TWAIN HANDBILL SAMPLE #MarkTwain A SPLENDID ORCHESTRA is in town, but has not been engaged. A DEN OF FEROCIOUS WILD BEASTS will be on exhibit in the next block. MAGNIFICENT FIREWORKS were in contemplation for this occasion, but the idea has been abandoned.

12:14 pm · October 13, 2019

Steve Shilstone

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tossed the ladle aside and belched long and loud. Thereupon Giles flew into a rage, made a nest there, and peered out, slit of eye, bereft of dreams, at a cruel world where resplendent toads live in luxury and intergalactic steamboat inventors are treated like unwanted viscera.

11:50 am · October 12, 2019

Steve Shilstone

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THE RESPLENDENT TOAD #dada #flashfiction The resplendent toad ladled gravy into his maw with a diamond studded silver dipper veined in gold. Giles Tumbleberry despaired. Why had he been rejected? After all, hadn’t he and he alone invented the intergalactic steamboat? The toad

11:50 am · October 12, 2019

Steve Shilstone

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So the lifelong freeloading leech doesn't pay his hate rally venue bills. What a shock. #POTUS45

8:03 pm · October 11, 2019

Steve Shilstone

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5 of 5 stars to A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole goodreads.com/review/show/30…

7:53 pm · October 11, 2019

Steve Shilstone

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ALBERT EINSTEIN #dada Albert wore this coat: whenever he went to get a haircut. on a secret mission to Tashkent. when Lucky Lindy took him for a sky ride. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. because it made him feel like a happy little owl. pic.twitter.com/1RlfYqmSnF

11:53 am · October 11, 2019

Steve Shilstone

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preened. Snaff! The bass chewed thoughtfully. ‘Yes, by jove, lovely and delicious,’ he said. Moral: Fish wearing a straw hat? Just walk away, no questions asked.

11:49 am · October 10, 2019

Steve Shilstone

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the sky. She shouted it to a huddle of distant crakes. She offered her high opinion of herself to a sea bass wearing a straw hat and strolling for a bit of fun on the beach. The bass paused, doffed his hat. The lovely pink posed and

11:49 am · October 10, 2019

Steve Shilstone

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THE PINK #dada #fairytale #flashfiction Upon a once time there dwelt in a queendom by the sea the loveliest of pink flowers. And she knew it, flaunted it, snobbed it endlessly up and down the strand. ‘Am I not lovely?’ she cried out to ptarmigans and flying whales cruising by in

11:49 am · October 10, 2019

Steve Shilstone

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MAX SHRECK #dada Max didn’t entertain often, but when he did, oh my. had a long and lucrative career as a prosecuting attorney. originally hailed from Jupiter. wrote two novels, but ate them before they could be published. really drank a lot of coffee. pic.twitter.com/tz9bfqgShF

11:49 am · October 9, 2019

Steve Shilstone

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LOUISE BROOKS #dada After her movie career, Louise spent several years laboring as a stevedore in Liverpool lived for a time with a couple of gorillas in the mist became quite a talented thimblerigger opened a hat shop in Ames, Iowa painted herself blue and hopped back and forth pic.twitter.com/dYmjn5MQ8q

11:47 am · October 8, 2019

Steve Shilstone

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SUSAN B MEETS MOTHER GOOSE #dada #poetry Susan B Anthony Susan be slick Susan jumped over the candlestick Her dress caught fire She ran to the lake She plunged right in and later ate cake

11:39 am · October 7, 2019

Steve Shilstone

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4 of 5 stars to King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild goodreads.com/review/show/30…

8:39 pm · October 6, 2019

Steve Shilstone

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noise, silence, noise, noise, silence, noise, silence, silence, atomization, star formation, and a new chance for secret robots to make nice with eternity.

11:56 am · October 6, 2019

Steve Shilstone

@steveshilstone

following tapestry of speech: “And the flaccid tentacles of night descend Entrusting our hope to a writhing dawn Oh when, oh where, oh why, oh what Can truth be leveraged under its oily sheen? And what about the moth? Oh, the moth and I despair.” Silence followed. Then

11:56 am · October 6, 2019

Steve Shilstone

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MAKE NICE #dada #flashfiction Spice Island Hal sashayed into the local beverage dispensary and partook of nectars sufficient to render him incapable of movement. Whereupon Portugese Nell Pasternak, entwined overhead in a complicated arrangement of chandeliers, brought forth the

11:56 am · October 6, 2019

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