<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><font face="'Times New Roman'" size="4" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="Apple-style-span"><div class="">There were far more, but this is a start--</div><div class=""><br></div><div class=""><br></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Johnson was silent, frozen like the bird had been. Tim looked at him and felt his cheeks get hot. "It was his fault. I was trying to help." Time paused. "Let's just go back to making the snowman."</span></font><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="white-space:pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>-- Melissa Harkness</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="'Times New Roman'" size="4" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="Apple-style-span">What if there was a man -- a good man -- who has done right all his life. But he finds that he doesn't fit with the world. His thoughts are broken like bits of lead, and when he speaks he spits metallic words. Fixed like a wax dummy, propped up with lids help open by string. Looks alive, but has glassy eyes. What if this man couldn't find order in God's plan, so he decided to take action himself?</span></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="white-space:pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>-- Michael Carnick</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="'Times New Roman'" size="3" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="Apple-style-span">I light the cigarette because I love smoking, because I love the motion, the snap of the lighter, that first inhale, the warmth in your throat and lungs, the different ways I can let it out, the balancing act between my fingers, the dangling between my lips while driving, the tease of the wind on my hand as I ash out the window, the red arc in the night, the way it's always there for me when I'm stressed or tired of full or waking up or a half-dozen other situations where Shannon provides no comfort but a slow, paced smoke while staring into the distance does.</span></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="white-space:pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>-- Leonid Leonov</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="'Times New Roman'" size="3" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="Apple-style-span">The sound of carousel music is heard. It is playing faster that intended. It has a frantic discordant feel to it. The only visible image is a swirling, silver, moon-shaped object surrounded only by darkness; a whirligig spinning as if its only purpose is to hurl itself off its axis into oblivion. </span></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="white-space:pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>-- Joe Powers</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="'Times New Roman'" size="3" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="Apple-style-span"><font face="Helvetica" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: medium;" class="Apple-style-span"><br class=""></span></font></span></font></div><div class="">
<div class="MsoNoteLevel2"><font face="'Times New Roman'" size="3" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="Apple-style-span">I
hope to find you in the nothing.</span></font><font face="'Times New Roman'" size="3" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="Apple-style-span"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNoteLevel2"><font face="'Times New Roman'" size="3" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="Apple-style-span">I
hope you find yourself when you don’t have anything. </span></font><font face="'Times New Roman'" size="3" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="Apple-style-span"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNoteLevel2"><font face="'Times New Roman'" size="3" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="Apple-style-span">When
you become the lonely child </span></font><font face="'Times New Roman'" size="3" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="Apple-style-span"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNoteLevel2"><font face="'Times New Roman'" size="3" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="Apple-style-span">that
is forced to face the empty corner</span></font><font face="'Times New Roman'" size="3" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="Apple-style-span"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNoteLevel2"><font face="'Times New Roman'" size="3" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="Apple-style-span">until
he’s consumed by the wall’s dirty places. </span></font><font face="'Times New Roman'" size="3" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="Apple-style-span"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNoteLevel2"><font face="'Times New Roman'" size="3" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="Apple-style-span"> </span></font><font face="'Times New Roman'" size="3" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="Apple-style-span"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNoteLevel2"><font face="'Times New Roman'" size="3" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="Apple-style-span">I
hope you find yourself </span></font><font face="'Times New Roman'" size="3" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="Apple-style-span"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNoteLevel2"><font face="'Times New Roman'" size="3" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="Apple-style-span">after
you have abused the abundance of the living. </span></font><font face="'Times New Roman'" size="3" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="Apple-style-span"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNoteLevel2"><font face="'Times New Roman'" size="3" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="Apple-style-span">Having
turned giant mirrors made of gas and steel</span></font><font face="'Times New Roman'" size="3" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="Apple-style-span"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNoteLevel2"><font face="'Times New Roman'" size="3" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="Apple-style-span">towards
the wrong side of the mountain. </span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNoteLevel2"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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</div><div class=""><span style="white-space:pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>-- Yuri Lara</div><div class=""><br class=""><div>
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