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CK Hicks

📍 Kansas City, USA
Insomnia - My Old Friend Feature Image

Insomnia - My Old Friend

I sat up in my chair, a slight surge of energy surfacing from some unknown storage cell within.  Fighting off the relentless pull of slumber, I allowed myself a moment to find my bearings and send the message I had been typing moments earlier.  It was late, somewhere near 3:

· 3 min · Blog

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Dance of the Doves

Once I was walking though the woods, the sunlight shining through the trees making everything come to life around me.  As I neared a clearing, I saw a bridge spanning a shallow ravine with a small creek running through it.  The water played a sweet tune as it drifted past,

· 2 min · Blog

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Haiku - Jonathan

The mexican smiles, Not at actions of his peers, But quirks of his own.

· < 1 min · Fiction & Poetry

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Haiku - Road Trips

Miles from home again, Memories and starry nights, Make the ride complete.

· < 1 min · Fiction & Poetry

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EE4 - Morning Preparations

On any given day, one could walk through the courtyard and hear a myriad of sounds. At times it was cluttered with clanks and clangs of steel upon steel, a sure sign that a training exercise was taking place. Some days it was peaceful, almost serene, with the carefree songs

· 3 min · Fiction & Poetry

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EE3 - Scouting New Lands

Two shadows fell across the edge of the creek, their outlines nearly merging to become one form. It could be assumed both were cast by humans, their slim builds and straight stature of youth revealing one as male and the other a slightly shorter female. The shadows paused and separated

· 2 min · Fiction & Poetry