Crazy?
I was crazy once.  The sky was grey, and the trees were grey, whipped by a grey
wi  wind into strange wonderful shapes.  Grey cliffs fell to a grey pond, lined
with grey stone.  Grey tree and grey earth and grey bird flying. Then, as fast
as the grey birds could dive, came the great grey wolves, row upon row, file
upon file, running like fear with nothing to run from, bringin the who    grey
trees down in their wake.  Cloud upon cloud of locusts, feasting upon the
bounty of war.  Onwards, ever onwards their laughing masters drove them, grey
lords with no face.  Galloping forever towards the end of the world, only to be
driven over the edge, falling into insanity, sweat, and tears.  The great eye 
closed, to open no more, afraid of what it could not understand, as it too 
plummeted off the edge, down into the depths, down, down, full fathom five...
Crazy? I was crazy once.The sky was grey, and the trees were grey, whipped by a
grey wind into strange wonderful shapes.  Grey cliffs fell to a grey pond,
where grey children took their sunday swim, unaware of the figure on the cliffs
above. Taking one last look back at his pursuers, the figure who was me leapt
into the  pond.  "Why me?" he thought, as his mind grew still, and the boy
heard him thi      thinking....

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Try to hit Enter/Return at the end of lines.  It makes reading responses
much easier, and of course, the item itself much easier to read.

I've had problems with that, you type return at what looks like the end of a 
line, but part of the line still gets chopped off

so don't wait so long.

This is rather strange- reminds me of a juvenile Zalazny or something.

Reminds me of the Shamar.

I had a dream like that once, but mine was in technicolor.

Ah, the hammer.

Nice piece, actually.

None, I'm interested in making a collection of some of the nicer peices of
writing that have appeared on grex from time to time.  Would you mind
if i used this?
Also, where did those two things remmers wrote, "I am a bat" and the one
about elevators?

Polaris is awed yes she is awed yes in fact she is so awed that she
forgets to include punctuation yes she is goodbye

Hello, my honey, hello my baby, mello my ragtime gaaaaalll!!

very...

polaris, polaris...

SOMEBODY has a pseudo....
None, that was stupid.

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