May 2013
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[New post] Heartbeat Frozen in Time
Post  : Heartbeat Frozen in Time URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/05/24/heartbeat-frozen-in-time/ Posted  : 24/May/2013 at 8:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : drabbles, flash fiction, short stories Categories : Writing In the dead of night, the skyline was a heartbeat frozen in time. We had come to the city with no name on a...
May 24th
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[New post] Autosabotage
Post  : Autosabotage URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/05/23/autosabotage/ Posted  : 23/May/2013 at 8:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : bad day, conversations inside heads, depression, drabbles, flash fiction, good day, short stories Categories : Writing There were two Martins, by his best count. They had whittled down in numbers until only two...
May 23rd
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[New post] Touchdown Gently
Post  : Touchdown Gently URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/05/22/touchdown-gently/ Posted  : 22/May/2013 at 8:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : aliens, drabbles, first contact, flash fiction, sex, short stories, stars, the sky Categories : Writing You come from the sky in a shining ball of gold; you touchdown gently in my corn fields and draw...
May 22nd
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[New post] Unlikely Places
Post  : Unlikely Places URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/05/21/unlikely-places/ Posted  : 21/May/2013 at 8:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : apologies, death, drabbles, flash fiction, loss, love, short stories Categories : Writing In the bathroom mirror when it’s fogged up, so that I’ll see it only when I’m naked and cold and vulnerable. In the...
May 21st
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[New post] Coke’s New Ad Campaign is Making Me...
Post  : Coke&;s New Ad Campaign is Making Me Feel Weird in the Soul URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/05/20/cokes-new-ad-campaign-is-making-me-feel-weird-in-the-soul/ Posted  : 20/May/2013 at 8:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : ad campaign, addiction, autofiction, coca-cola, drabbles, flash fiction, flaskpost, short stories Categories : Writing ...
May 20th
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[New post] Fragments of a Work in Progress
Post  : Fragments of a Work in Progress URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/05/20/fragments-of-a-work-in-progress/ Posted  : 20/May/2013 at 12:51pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : bardo thödol, excerpts, fiction, love, religion, short stories, space, starships, torah, work in progress Categories : Writing Thoughts stretched like shadows elongating; like...
May 20th
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[New post] See the Sun
Post  : See the Sun URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/05/19/see-the-sun/ Posted  : 19/May/2013 at 8:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : apocalypse, colours, drabbles, flash fiction, practical joke, short stories, the end of the world Categories : Writing It’s the end of the world; it feels like a practical joke. People are standing still, slack jaws...
May 19th
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[New post] Mycofreudianism
Post  : Mycofreudianism URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/05/18/mycofreudianism/ Posted  : 18/May/2013 at 8:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : drabbles, flash fiction, freud, mushrooms, mycelium, mycology, short stories, the collective unconscious, underground Categories : Writing The collective unconscious is a real place and we should go there. We...
May 18th
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[New post] Tell Me a Riddle
Post  : Tell Me a Riddle URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/05/17/tell-me-a-riddle/ Posted  : 17/May/2013 at 8:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : death, dialogue, drabbles, flash fiction, riddles, short stories, wishes Categories : Writing They say Death grants wishes right before you die. Well, Miriam Dunkirk had always been a smartass. There was a...
May 17th
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[New post] Somewhere on My Body
Post  : Somewhere on My Body URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/05/16/somewhere-on-my-body/ Posted  : 16/May/2013 at 8:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : blobs, drabbles, fanfiction, first contact, flash fiction, self-doubt, short stories Categories : Writing Maybe he had imagined it. But if it happened again, this time, for serious, he would write it...
May 16th
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[New post] Only Fire Will Do
Post  : Only Fire Will Do URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/05/15/only-fire-will-do/ Posted  : 15/May/2013 at 8:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : cauterization, drabbles, fire, flash fiction, short stories, trauma Categories : Writing That knife won’t do. Nor will chains, whips, or swords. An exception will be made for blades if you put them in the...
May 15th
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[New post] Food Fit for Kings
Post  : Food Fit for Kings URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/05/14/food-fit-for-kings/ Posted  : 14/May/2013 at 8:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : drabbles, flash fiction, food, halogen lightbulb, short stories Categories : Writing If you eat so much as a bite you cannot go back. They have heated the milk by putting halogen lightbulbs in the...
May 14th
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[New post] 21
Post  : 21 URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/05/13/21/ Posted  : 13/May/2013 at 8:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : drabbles, flash fiction, nasa, short stories, space, spacewalk, stars, the sky Categories : Writing Day, night, day, night. Day; night. The sun races across the sky like it’s got something to lose and hides behind the big blue planet...
May 13th
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[New post] This is a Robbery
Post  : This is a Robbery URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/05/13/this-is-a-robbery/ Posted  : 13/May/2013 at 12:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : bank robbery, death, flash fiction, hades, horror, perfume, robbery, short stories, smell, styx, suicide, vignette, wishes Categories : Writing This is a Robbery Sometimes I wish I were a dog. I...
May 13th
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[New post] An Amicable Alternative to Divorce
Post  : An Amicable Alternative to Divorce URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/05/12/an-amicable-alternative-to-divorce/ Posted  : 12/May/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : divorce, drabbles, flash fiction, love, short stories Categories : Writing I have redefined you to exclude the bits of you that I dislike. I know this sounds harsh, but it...
May 12th
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[New post] How Do I Become One?
Post  : How Do I Become One? URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/05/11/how-do-i-become-one/ Posted  : 11/May/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : drabbles, flash fiction, monsters, shadows, short stories, tragedy Categories : Writing They travel the night, searching for some tragedy to attach themselves to and define themselves by. You can pass...
May 11th
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[New post] they will be wrong of course
Post  : they will be wrong of course URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/05/10/they-will-be-wrong-of-course/ Posted  : 10/May/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : damnatio memoriae, death, drabbles, flash fiction, ideas, memento mori, short stories, things i should have prefaced with ‘sext:’ Categories : Writing you wake up in the absence of...
May 10th
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[New post] Not Even You
Post  : Not Even You URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/05/09/not-even-you/ Posted  : 9/May/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : drabbles, first kiss, flash fiction, sex, short stories Categories : Writing Nobody sleeps with the first one they kiss, it’s a rule. It’s either too early or too late. Your first kiss never leads to your first lay,...
May 9th
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[New post] Shipwreck
Post  : Shipwreck URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/05/08/shipwreck/ Posted  : 8/May/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : depression, drabbles, flash fiction, shipwrecks, short stories Categories : Writing I feel like a shipwreck. I sank like a stone. The finest masonry this side of the ocean I tried to cross did not help, but I got exactly...
May 8th
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[New post] Doing Much Better Now, Thanks
Post  : Doing Much Better Now, Thanks URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/05/07/doing-much-better-now-thanks/ Posted  : 7/May/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : art, braque, cubism, drabbles, flash fiction, short stories, stalkers Categories : Writing He stared at his cupcake, its soft artificial pink was much softer than the artificial pink...
May 7th
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[New post] Douglas
Post  : Douglas URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/05/06/douglas/ Posted  : 6/May/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : drabbles, fanaticism, flash fiction, short stories Categories : Writing But that was their choice, their hearts, not his. They had made him lonely and he had made himself almost lonely. That was okay. The thing about Douglas,...
May 6th
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[New post] The Great Semantic Shift
Post  : The Great Semantic Shift URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/05/06/the-great-semantic-shift/ Posted  : 6/May/2013 at 4:35pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : druids, history, hoax, international gaslighting festival, linguistics, sarcasm, semantics Categories : Other Originally written for International Gaslighting Festival, I decided this thing...
May 6th
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[New post] Woolen Socks
Post  : Woolen Socks URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/05/05/woolen-socks/ Posted  : 5/May/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : drabbles, flash fiction, horror, short stories Categories : Writing The patient looked at once eighty years old and eighty minutes. Covered in red slime, eyes sunk so far into her skull that...
May 5th
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[New post] Aching for You to Eclose
Post  : Aching for You to Eclose URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/05/04/aching-for-you-to-eclose/ Posted  : 4/May/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : broken heart, cocoon, drabbles, eclosion, entomology, flash fiction, love, moths, pupa, pupation, regina spektor, short stories Categories : Writing You were a nervous kid in winter; not...
May 4th
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[New post] In Case of Organ Failure
Post  : In Case of Organ Failure URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/05/03/in-case-of-organ-failure/ Posted  : 3/May/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : clones, drabbles, flash fiction, organ failure, science fiction, short stories Categories : Writing Beginning to suspect that Dr. Donum’s insistence on cloning...
May 3rd
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[New post] The Microwave Problem
Post  : The Microwave Problem URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/05/02/the-microwave-problem/ Posted  : 2/May/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : drabbles, flash fiction, microwave oven, science fiction, short stories, teleport Categories : Writing The microwave oven engineers made a box that only worked when closed. It...
May 2nd
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[New post] Did You Write about Me?
Post  : Did You Write about Me? URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/05/01/did-you-write-about-me/ Posted  : 1/May/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : drabbles, flash fiction, rape, sex, short stories Categories : Writing You broke a rule and it sounded like a twig snapped. You say you’ve forgotten that night when...
May 1st
April 2013
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[New post] Harddrive Rust
Post  : Harddrive Rust URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/04/30/harddrive-rust/ Posted  : 30/Apr/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : drabbles, flash fiction, music, science fiction, short stories, stars, the end of the world Categories : Writing When grandpa still existed, when there were any grandpas at all, he used to...
Apr 30th
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[New post] Befriend a Spectre Day
Post  : Befriend a Spectre Day URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/04/29/befriend-a-spectre-day/ Posted  : 29/Apr/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : deafness, death, drabbles, eating disorders, flash fiction, ghosts, monsters, short stories, space Categories : Writing It is hard to have ghosts as friends. They do not...
Apr 29th
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[New post] Strigiformes
Post  : Strigiformes URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/04/28/strigiformes/ Posted  : 28/Apr/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : death, drabbles, farewell, feelings, flash fiction, short stories, suicide Categories : Writing Don’t look in the obituaries. He didn’t die but he might as well have, he is gone. He dropped out in a rather...
Apr 28th
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[New post] You Say So Little
Post  : You Say So Little URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/04/27/you-say-so-little/ Posted  : 27/Apr/2013 at 9:20pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : drabbles, flash fiction, hands, kidnapping, short stories, stalkers, tape Categories : Writing I taped your mouth shut while you were sleeping so that your muffled screams would wake...
Apr 27th
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[New post] Where the Cracks Would Form
Post  : Where the Cracks Would Form URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/04/26/where-the-cracks-would-form/ Posted  : 26/Apr/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : drabbles, eggshell, flash fiction, short stories, suicide Categories : Writing I just want to slam my fucking head against this wall until either head or wall...
Apr 26th
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[New post] Introduction to Top Hat Physics
Post  : Introduction to Top Hat Physics URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/04/25/introduction-to-top-hat-physics/ Posted  : 25/Apr/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : dialogue, drabbles, flash fiction, magic, rabbits, shipwrecks, short stories, tophats Categories : Writing But they must to come from somewhere. Why? ...
Apr 25th
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[New post] Gossip
Post  : Gossip URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/04/24/gossip/ Posted  : 24/Apr/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : colours, drabbles, flash fiction, gossip, paint, short stories Categories : Writing Take off your clothes, and take this paint and brush. Paint little faces all over your body and smooth out your...
Apr 24th
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[New post] Sky Factories
Post  : Sky Factories URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/04/23/sky-factories/ Posted  : 23/Apr/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : clouds, colours, constellations, drabbles, factories, flash fiction, light pollution, shanty towns, short stories, stars, the sky Categories : Writing Plumes of tar hanging in the sky, so thick you could probably...
Apr 23rd
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[New post] Whale
Post  : Whale URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/04/22/whale-2/ Posted  : 22/Apr/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : drabbles, flash fiction, monsters, shadows, short stories, whales Categories : Writing A shadow moved across the land, shaped like the shadow of a whale. There were no whales present who could cast that...
Apr 22nd
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[New post] Call It Fate
Post  : Call It Fate URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/04/21/call-it-fate/ Posted  : 21/Apr/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : drabbles, earthquakes, fate, faust, flash fiction, rain, screams, short stories Categories : Writing Somewhere in a ditch the rainwater is separating a dog skeleton from its collar. In a hospital a baby is born....
Apr 21st
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[New post] Anything She Opens
Post  : Anything She Opens URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/04/20/anything-she-opens/ Posted  : 20/Apr/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : doorways, drabbles, flash fiction, monsters, mouths, short stories, umbrellas Categories : Writing This morning, her umbrella tried to eat her. Umbrellas are hungry and they have...
Apr 20th
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[New post] Little Egg
Post  : Little Egg URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/04/19/little-egg/ Posted  : 19/Apr/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : drabbles, evil, flash fiction, magic, short stories, souls, sympathetic magic Categories : Writing Little Myfanwy was born and her soul was wrapped around an owl’s egg. The chick...
Apr 19th
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[New post] Corset
Post  : Corset URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/04/18/corset/ Posted  : 18/Apr/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : corsets, drabbles, drug mules, flash fiction, short stories, smuggling Categories : Writing Corsets from a young age; if you can breathe you are doing it wrong. Deformed. Knowing what’s to come at...
Apr 18th
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[New post] Heartbreak
Post  : Heartbreak URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/04/17/heartbreak/ Posted  : 17/Apr/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : broken heart, drabbles, flash fiction, love, short stories, whispers Categories : Writing The loudest sound ever recorded in human history was accompanied by the pitiful whimper of broken china...
Apr 17th
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[New post] Slugs
Post  : Slugs URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/04/16/slugs/ Posted  : 16/Apr/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : cicadas, drabbles, flash fiction, moulting, sex, short stories, slugs Categories : Writing He clambered onto the bed and the fine oak bedposts rotted immediately. The bed shifted. There was the slurping...
Apr 16th
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[New post] Overture
Post  : Overture URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/04/15/overture/ Posted  : 15/Apr/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : drabbles, flash fiction, love, marriage, music, opera, overture, romance, short stories, tragedy, trauma Categories : Writing Orwell and Julia’s relationship had an overture at a Christmas party...
Apr 15th
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[New post] An Old French Joke
Post  : An Old French Joke URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/04/14/an-old-french-joke/ Posted  : 14/Apr/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : drabbles, flash fiction, humour, jokes, pigs, short stories Categories : Writing (Sometimes death is funny, no matter what you do.) A teacher has to inform her young student about...
Apr 14th
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[New post] Sympathy
Post  : Sympathy URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/04/13/sympathy/ Posted  : 13/Apr/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : drabbles, flash fiction, ghosts, magic, pressure, short stories, souls, sympathetic magic Categories : Writing You are connected by magic to a certain object; everyone is. Something round. Most of the...
Apr 13th
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[New post] Clockwork Smile
Post  : Clockwork Smile URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/04/12/clockwork-smile/ Posted  : 12/Apr/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : broken heart, clockwork, drabbles, flash fiction, frown, short stories, smile, the pathetic fallacy, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts Categories : Writing I’m a smile...
Apr 12th
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[New post] Libido
Post  : Libido URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/04/11/libido/ Posted  : 11/Apr/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : 1950, drabbles, flash fiction, neutering, regrets, short stories, spaying Categories : Writing We are starting to regret having him fixed. Sure, it’s a lot calmer round here, and it’s easier...
Apr 11th
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[New post] Elephant?
Post  : Elephant? URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/04/10/elephant/ Posted  : 10/Apr/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : art, drabbles, dystopia, elephant, flash fiction, gas mask, short stories Categories : Writing There is a new installation in the tallest building in the city. It releases gas that kills artists. There is an interactive...
Apr 10th
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[New post] Ablach
Post  : Ablach URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/04/09/ablach/ Posted  : 9/Apr/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : drabbles, flash fiction, i miss you, love, memories, short stories Categories : Writing Remember the last time you felt at home anywhere. Close your eyes if it helps. Lie down somewhere, relax, stop...
Apr 9th
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[New post] Shadows
Post  : Shadows URL  : http://zombiesintelligently.com/2013/04/08/shadows/ Posted  : 8/Apr/2013 at 6:00pm Author  : johannespunkt Tags  : drabbles, earthquakes, flash fiction, forbidden love, love, romance, shadows, short stories, taboo Categories : Writing And if you see me, pretend not to know me. I always watch where the sun throws my...
Apr 8th