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Grandma and The Flash
Tomorrow was the day Alex had been looking forward to all summer. Mom and Dad were waiting for him back home in Washington. Alex had to...
Olivia Hollman
Apr 26, 201714 min read
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Scythe and the Mermaid
Stooped over, his thin, dark frame slouches over his work. He delicately sculpts the soft clay with course hands, his balding hair...
Olivia Hollman
Mar 27, 201718 min read
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How to Haunt a Ghost
Moonlight streams though your gossamer curtains as every few minutes you toss and turn among the covers. Unconsciously whisper to...
Olivia Hollman
Feb 10, 20178 min read
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Beginning of "Black Marble"
The trees cast their dark shadows on the pond’s surface, each branch stretching both towards the heavens and piercing my heart. Hushed. ...
Olivia Hollman
Jan 19, 20172 min read
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Worshiping Meaning
In the quest for meaning poets ultimately wrestle with the question of the existence of the divine, of the actuality of godly power, or...
Olivia Hollman
Dec 8, 20168 min read
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Livy: The Bloodthirsty Beginnings of Rome
Livy, The Founding of Rome, 1.7.2 “inde cum altercatione congressi certamine irarum ad caedem vertuntur; ibi in turba ictus Remus...
Olivia Hollman
Nov 21, 20167 min read
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W.I.P. "Cobalt Blue"
“Momma?” “Yeah? Boo?!! Honey!” Boo lay in a hospital bed, muddied golden locks mixed with a white bandage and a little heart monitor...
Olivia Hollman
Jul 10, 20167 min read
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Steel Made Soft
Earthshattering, godlike beings dwell around us. Bearing the loads of others’ misdeeds and upholding justice and the American way, it...
Olivia Hollman
Mar 3, 20165 min read
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The Mighty Malakh Yahweh
Canto I At night, my curled form is sleeping, yet glory descends to awake, my eyes blinded, myself afeared the presence of God is near....
Olivia Hollman
Jan 30, 20163 min read
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Writing Down the River
Pebbles lie betwixt boulders, up and down the riverbank of writing. Toes tingling with twinges of nipping ice water, I wade, step by...
Olivia Hollman
Jan 30, 20162 min read
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Talons of Isolation
Creeping talons of depression grip me, tearing and lashing as beaks gleam They rip my insides vehemently scraping tissue and soft...
Olivia Hollman
Jan 30, 20161 min read
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Excerpt from "Ostentatious"
Shoes clicking on the marble floor, rat-a-tapping as briskly as an isolated walk could, Mr. Cruise strutted by me at the gala. His blue...
Olivia Hollman
Jan 30, 20163 min read
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