• At the bar

    The Orchid Room is a collaborative writing project. Anyone can participate. Just a leave a comment like talking to the bartender or one of the performers. If you would like a night on stage you can audition anywhere. This week the Orchid Room is proud to announce all new management. And we are serving food prepared by Wilbur Cox Jn. (Wil, to his mates.) The wine is supplied by the wonderful folk at The Grateful Palate.
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    • must mention mosquitoes & the bombardment of beetles July 23, 2008
      According to page 194 of my wonderful new Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada (for review, see post one previous to this one), we are being bitten by 3 or possibly 4 different kinds of mosquitoes: black snow mosquito, common snow mosquito, and cool weather mosquito are the most likely culprits here at 7600′ [...]
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    • untitled poem in small-case letters. July 19, 2008
      click, click. with each click, one bird became nothing in the sky. my morning was a morning - it started with breakfast, a space seen through hotel blinds, in which there flew too many birds. so click. a word we underlined in pencil and wrote “onomatopoeia” in the margin. a cheap trick. i broke the stress relief thing over my keyboard - i spent some time vacumming up [...]

rose’s name

No one cares about my name though. They care about letting me know how filthy I am. They care about me moving or they’ll call the cops. They must not catch my homelessness. Hurry children. Cross the street to avoid the old, burly woman.

But this thin, shaking man seems to share my sadness – the droop forward in his shoulders, the listless way he wraps his bleeding hand into a small torn piece of velvet.

Maybe he’s like me. Maybe he’ll want to know my name?

4 Responses to “rose’s name”

  1. sorry. i’ll write a new character next time. if anyone has any suggestions, let me know.

  2. let it fly

  3. enough rules, i hate rules, if you want rules go make up your own, Rose is great by me, both you girls can write, differently in different styles cool bananas, now do we need a bas player, some young bloke who play just a little to the girls, not an old fogey like me, that would be cool, anyone now any?

  4. Oh and listen to Jo, she knows what she is talking about, generally, re organising things, i might make everyone a full contributor like me and then you can play with it however you want, and if someone knows someone who like an outward link, no traffic will go through it, but we can use as part of the site, ie, spread like a virus hahahahahahahahahahahaha, i will be sailing the good ship gingatao, yohoho,

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