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		<title>Life in Onomatopoeia</title>
		<link>http://pinionpost.com/2013/05/10/life-in-onomatopoeia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 19:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Benoit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life in Onomatopoeia Slurp Wahh! (Birth) Haha! *Scrape* Wahh! (Childhood)  Ooh Mmm *Slam* Wahh! (Adolescence)  Honk honk Tappity tap Sigh *cha-ching* Wee! (Adulthood)  Slurp Wahh! Slop Wahh! Wahh! Squish Eugh… (Parenthood)  Mumble Sigh Shhhhhhh (The End) Well, that was different, wasn&#8217;t it? This is my submission for this weekend&#8217;s Trifextra challenge (via the Trifecta Writing [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pinionpost.com&#038;blog=34615160&#038;post=5716&#038;subd=pinionpost&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tough Guy Bobby Caduzo</title>
		<link>http://pinionpost.com/2013/05/09/tough-guy-bobby-caduzo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 03:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Benoit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tough Guy Bobby Caduzo “A little… light for a mob joint, isn’t it? I mean, watercolors? Artsy mirrors. Glass eggs in baskets? I thought we were here to meet ‘tough guy Bobby Caduzo.’ This don’t strike me as a place for no tough guys.” “Hey shut your mouth, would ya? Show some respect. Bobby’s right [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pinionpost.com&#038;blog=34615160&#038;post=5710&#038;subd=pinionpost&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Madelaine</title>
		<link>http://pinionpost.com/2013/05/08/madelaine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 02:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Benoit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Madelaine &#8220;I see that look on your face: You don’t believe me, and I don’t blame you. But I do love you, Sean Brennan—after a fashion. Shh. Don’t interrupt, sweetie. Let me explain: When I came to see you four days ago (or three and a half if it please you) I told you I [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pinionpost.com&#038;blog=34615160&#038;post=5649&#038;subd=pinionpost&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Echoes</title>
		<link>http://pinionpost.com/2013/05/06/echoes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 18:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Benoit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Echoes I watched my brother’s face as the cocktail of drugs took effect. His eyelids fluttered and his eyes rolled, and beads of sweat began to appear on his waxy skin. I made sure the contacts were secure against his scalp. “Turn it on,” I said. Meher’s hand went to the switch, but he hesitated. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pinionpost.com&#038;blog=34615160&#038;post=5550&#038;subd=pinionpost&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media for Writers</title>
		<link>http://pinionpost.com/2013/05/04/social-media-for-writers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 20:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Benoit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be the first to admit: I’ve been a little slow on the uptake with using platforms like Twitter and Facebook to get my writing out there. First, it felt a little presumptuous to create a fan page for myself when I haven&#8217;t actually published anything yet; then it just seemed like I could never [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pinionpost.com&#038;blog=34615160&#038;post=5526&#038;subd=pinionpost&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gaudi</title>
		<link>http://pinionpost.com/2013/05/02/gaudi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 01:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Benoit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gaudi I tried to give the form of nature to the works of man. The organic curve, the subtle softness—an answer to the harsh lines and right angles we use to distinguish ourselves from the beast. The Segrada Familia, Park Güell, Casa Batlló: these were my life’s work. Perhaps the world laughs at me now, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pinionpost.com&#038;blog=34615160&#038;post=5516&#038;subd=pinionpost&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Short Story Contests: May</title>
		<link>http://pinionpost.com/2013/05/02/short-story-contests-may-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 22:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Benoit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been bad, reader friends, and waited too long to get my list of May short stories together. Consequently, the May 1st deadlines are out the door. My apologies! There are still a few chances to submit though, so let me lay the sweetness on you: Crab Orchard Review Dyer Fiction Prize Deadline: May 4 Guidelines: 6,000 words [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pinionpost.com&#038;blog=34615160&#038;post=5510&#038;subd=pinionpost&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Talisman</title>
		<link>http://pinionpost.com/2013/04/30/the-talisman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 03:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Benoit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Talisman “You took a piece of my heart?” “Isn’t it romantic?” I frowned. Les Moelleux was clearing out as we drank, and apart from the few dancers that remained, undone in the laps of patrons in dark corners, we were alone. “And your story about someone robbing your place? That was a lie?” Madelaine [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pinionpost.com&#038;blog=34615160&#038;post=5306&#038;subd=pinionpost&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Prison of the Mind</title>
		<link>http://pinionpost.com/2013/04/29/a-prison-of-the-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Benoit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Prison of the Mind I’d last seen my brother when he was 11 and I was 15. I did not recognize this man—soft, bloated and white—that stared upon the world with these watery eyes. He was like a corpse, newly surfaced in some icy pond. “Brother…” I said. “Paul.” “He will not speak,” Meher [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pinionpost.com&#038;blog=34615160&#038;post=5253&#038;subd=pinionpost&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Kingdom</title>
		<link>http://pinionpost.com/2013/04/26/the-kingdom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Benoit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kingdom In legend is a kingdom, far-flung and rooted in the perfect traditions of nature, where trees, heavy-hung with fruit, line leafy walks (and there is time to walk them). Are you there now? For this Trifextra, since it&#8217;s such a nice day out and it&#8217;s almost the weekend, I thought I&#8217;d take a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pinionpost.com&#038;blog=34615160&#038;post=5194&#038;subd=pinionpost&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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