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General Writing. Send in your best work – poems, short stories, essays. (Feel free to do it throughout the year, but this gives you a deadline.)
Deadline: Oct. 10.

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Alcohol Baby

awsmpossum's picture
Submitted by awsmpossum on July 4, 2008 - 09:17.

Shut up Baby, it's too late to explain that your alcohol addiction may have been our end.
I always thought that giving up on someone because they cheated was stupid, was pointless. But you've been cheating on me with Captain Morgan, Jack Daniels, Smirnoff, anything you can get your hands on and I'm sick of being second best to your addiction. I like you dry; when you can explain your decisions, when kissing you doesn't feel like manipulation. But I miss your skin; the way it felt against my fingertips, your fingertips against my skin. Shivers take the escalator down my spine at the very mention of your name, so when I say I feel betrayed, I think I have a point. You told those men our secrets after unscrewing their tops, pouring out as they poured in. So while you try to fill yourself up, I'm left empty, wishing that I drank.

mixedmusic333's picture

You nailed it. Everything.

Submitted by mixedmusic333 on July 4, 2008 - 09:58.

You nailed it. Everything.

awsmpossum's picture

Thanks MM. Short prose is

Submitted by awsmpossum on July 4, 2008 - 11:26.

Thanks MM.
Short prose is growing on me...

This is really nice. I like

Submitted by laughinglilac on August 12, 2008 - 18:20.

This is really nice. I like the idea of it, of how she is cheating on him with the alcohol. Pretty sad, but nice. The phrase I really love is "Shivers take the escalator down my spine at the very mention of your name"

I also love your username.

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