R.M. Dolin, May 22, 2024 On mornings such as thisyou can tastewind’s many salacious secretslingering in last night’safter-shadows.When you slow downenough to listen,she talks in truthful talesabout your painful pastwhile whispering gentlyof magical adventuresyet to unfurl. Background poem for the yet to be started novel, …
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R.M. Dolin, May 21, 2024 I imagine your lipstenderly touching mine,your subtle body glisteningin the softnessof morning’s first light,my soul repletein hopeful wonder…. Background poem for the yet to be started novel, “An Unsustainable Life.” Issac seductively woos his latest conquest while serving her drinks …
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If you ever go to Paris, make sure that at least once you enjoy a cup of hot chocolate. It will be every bit as rich and decadent as you’d expect. My preferred place is Charles Chocolatier, 15 Rue Montorgueil, but good places are everywhere. …
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Chapter 13 in R.M. Dolin’s novel “The Dangling Conversation”, April 22, 2023. KYLE: “Calling me distracted is like dry kindling to a forest fire. The thing is, and I speak from experience, life kicks you in the teeth and mires you in mud; nothing’s as …
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R.M. Dolin, April 30, 2024 It’s not that you don’t say, I love you, it’s the hesitant way you look like someone taste-testing spinach. I can’t describe it any more than I can tell you the color of cold, but it’s something short of certain. …
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Chapter 12 in the R.M. Dolin novel, “The Dangling Conversation,” April 30, 2023. ISABELLE: “It’s not that Henry doesn’t say, “I love you,” it’s his awkwardly forced look, like a child taste-testing spinach. I can’t describe it any more than I can tell you the …
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Chapter 11 in the R.M. Dolin novel, “The Dangling Conversation,” April 27, 2024. Completion of the Olivia story Kyle starts in Chapter 10 Resonance Dissonance ISABELLE: “I feel bad about hijacking your Olivia reveal the other night, here I am one minute acknowledging how hard …
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R.M. Dolin, April 24, 2024 Rain clouds the sky more than this momentcan wash mist off memories too tender to ever again be touched. Your lifeless eyes hold a truth I no longer deny, devoid of sadness and regret while hiding sorrow’s last look at …
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R.M. Dolin, April 23, 2024 She’s locked in a life that tears her soul so deeply dark clouds of doom hover like an umbrella in rain deflecting any form of light that dares to enter, dashing all hope of ever finding her rainbow. You know …
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R.M. Dolin, April 22, 2024 I am more than a toy built up only to be destroyed for your amusement. I’ve earned the right to live outside a world condensed into a single room where everyone judges me as I stand accused, having no clueit …
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