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Nectarines by smurfofdoom, literature

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Nectarines

I said I preferred peaches, but you wanted a nectarine. So we brought it back and you portioned it out and I found it wasn't better — only different. You went back to your city, and I held the taste in my mouth for days. Curl the knife around the pit; gently twist the halves apart. Admire the honey-golden forms and the rich-veined flesh. So what did I buy at the grocer's on St. Benedict's Street? Not peaches, but smooth nectarines. It is different in this country, where pleasures have become necessities. These days I cannot taste except in memory.

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[This poem has been removed as it lacks the emotional and verbal depth to be a real poem. When submitting please remember that a real poet is an outcast and eccentric, with real emotional trauma, and lacking these qualities nothing the submitter writes can ever be considered a poem. If you wish to re-submit your work, please follow these guidelines: -o- Please remove all instances of self-depreciation and any words that clearly allude to pain. These are "emo" and therefore not real poetry. -o- Please do not write about love if under the age of twenty-one, as an adolescent obviously knows nothing about such an adult emotion. -o-

Footage by Anthony-Ryan, literature

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Footage

I have footage of you smoking in silence in a dark room, your face and wrists lit up with their whiteness, with the rinsed light of film. In the captured darkness, in the grainy movement of still shapes, I watch as remembrance turns and returns with the scent and the incense in the delicacy of your cigarette-- the smoke was a vaporized crest, a duck-shape of wicker, a cinder of a dream ringing in the quartered night. You had stared into the center of the room or through a window as you sat ignoring the camera, ignoring the silence, and ignoring the cigarette as it floated to your lips. I watch. I remember perfec

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About almalobana

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Artist // Literature

Mar 19
United Kingdom
Deviant for 18 years
www.sparkbright.org
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I work in the publishing industry. I'm trying to write a novel, but keep getting distracted by shiny things.

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Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, A.S. Byatt, Suzanne Collins

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almalobana

Mar 16, 2011

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So I've not really been around on the site for a good few months now. I guess just things are changing and I'm getting busy with other things. I'm still keeping Sparkbright going - we've got a new issue due out in June, and we're closing for submissions for that issue at the start of May. I'm in my final term of university, so I'm busy looking for a job. If you've been following me for a while you might remember me doing an internship at a literary agency last summer, or my stint at Oxford University Press. They were great experiences and I've got a few more placements lined up for this summer, but I'm hoping to find some paid work before to

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almalobana

Dec 1, 2010

Happy December!

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OK, so I'll give you guys a proper life update soon, but for now I'm just dropping in to let you know that the latest issue of Sparkbright is online now: http://bit.ly/faXClW We'll be wanting writing for issue 6, so get writing, yeah? :) x

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almalobana

Nov 21, 2010

Hello!

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I feel like I dropped off the face of the planet for a little while. Actually, I went away for a week, visiting the boyfriend, and then my best friend for her 21st birthday. And then I've been caught up in NaNoWriMo, which (thankfully) is still on course - 37,000 words so far. The 30k's have been tricky for me. I've completely fallen out of love with my story, and it's becoming more and more difficult to get started each day. I'm hoping that once I hit 40k, I'll be like WOOHOO ALMOST DONE and then I'll sprint to the finish line and all will be well with the world. And then I'll just have to persevere a little longer to get to the end of the

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HugQueen

Jul 25, 2011

I love you.

Hope you're well, lovely. <3

almalobana

Jul 26, 2011

This made me smile

Love for you too! I'm good, thanks. Hope you're well too?

HugQueen

Aug 1, 2011

I'm glad it could, lovely.

Thank youuuuuuu. ♥ I'm doing fairly well, got a bit of a headache but otherwise I'm well. This heat is insane.

wyldhoney

May 7, 2011

Hi!

I have featured *Panda-Vision in my latest news article, and he pointed out one of the featured pieces was a collaboration with you (- so you get a bit of spotlight as well).