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creative writing , eulogy , poetry
Randy, Randy
Leilani Chavez 1:39 AM 0
Will you take me to the arbo retum, read the names of ironwoods, vines that carve trans lucent shadows, light flooding the house in a...
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Leilani Chavez
1:39 AM
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creative writing , diary entries , film , indie film , scriptwriting
And here we are
Leilani Chavez 2:22 PM 0
I am beginning to feel that sluggishness of having to update an outdated blog account. Blogging seemed to have been largely abandoned i...
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Leilani Chavez
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creative writing , eulogy , notes and doodles , writing , writing prompt
2017, a eulogy
Leilani Chavez 12:01 AM 0
You leave me scars I rub to bleed fire.
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creative writing , diary entries , essays , palette of place , travel , writing , writing prompt
Stalemate
Leilani Chavez 1:00 PM 0
Raindrops hit my ankles as I breeze through the cobblestones. Looming around are ancestral houses painted new, in a street littered with ki...
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childhood bedroom , creative nonfiction , creative writing , essays , writing , writing prompts
Childhood Bedroom
Leilani Chavez 11:23 PM 0
I was nine when Mama decided to wash the whole house in light pink. My room was not spared. Pink was nice but too girly and the sudden colo...
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creative writing , diary entries , essays , writing , writing prompts , you ought to be in photos
Bunso
Leilani Chavez 2:48 PM 0
In this photo you are a conqueror. Do you notice how we crowd to you? How we struggle to get into the frame, be included in your light? You...
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creative nonfiction , creative writing , essays , writing , writing prompts
Seattle’s Best Coffee, Tomas Morato
Leilani Chavez 10:02 PM 0
Tuesday, July 5, 6:44 p.m. to 7:23 p.m. An ageing woman has a plump foot propped up on a wooden chair. She wears a bright blue baseball...
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creative nonfiction , creative writing , essays , writing prompts
Pop
Leilani Chavez 11:53 PM 0
A bulbous cherry glittered underneath a concoction of vodka and soda. I circled the mouth of the glass, the clear well illuminating the li...
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creative nonfiction , creative writing , essays , meditation , pottery , writing , writing prompts
Swirling: An Essay on Pottery
Leilani Chavez 8:19 PM 0
I I lose myself, every time. The walk ends in surrender yet the struggle remains. It is fighting and losing at the same time, like how the...
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creative writing , poetry , writing prompts
Heartbreak
Leilani Chavez 12:19 AM 0
The alarm has long moved past her waking time She captures the dusk in the ceiling but refuses to face the sun. She has a meeting to att...
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creative writing , poetry , workshop , writing prompts
Some Kindergarten Poetry
Leilani Chavez 11:55 AM 0
Himig (September 27, 2015) While moving boxes and tables and chairs, I thank the room for being small and the cage being equally small ...
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anger , creative nonfiction , creative writing , essays , writing prompts
Anger (Excerpts)
Leilani Chavez 1:27 AM 0
II My history with anger began two years ago, when I jumped off the security ship and started freelancing and we started dating. Before ...
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