Cali Loria
Bio
Over punctuating, under delivering.
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Stories (41/0)
Just Desserts
"Two forks?" the waitress inquired. "One will be fine, thank you," I responded. It was our second date. He took me to my favorite restaurant in my favorite neighborhood. We sat nestled on a small patio, string lights adding romantic ambiance to the beautiful evening.
By Cali Loria3 years ago in Fiction
Heart-Shaped Breasts
Even before everybody started dying from the new flu, the number of medical professionals dwindled. It was the way of formerly lucrative careers with large buy-ins. By 17, so many kids had found their millionaire status niche online, replete with earbud and automatic car sponsorships. Pursuing anything else seemed frankly foolish. Profiting parents, easily placated by their children with the promise of no student loan debt, found futher schooling unnecessary. It was a win-win for everyone but the dying and diseased.
By Cali Loria3 years ago in Fiction
Poetry Slam Your Body Down and Wind It All-Around
I write slam poetry. I developed this passion in my mid-twenties carousing with a rap collective. It was an introduction to beats, lyricism, sex, drugs, and great heights. Their female member inspired me with her early work as a slam poet. I was far too intimidated to ever talk to her outside informal introduction over hot dogs named for the Minnesota Twins at The Depot, First Avenue’s dining tavern. Still, as I stupidly climbed up to the top of abandoned warehouses and listened to men rap to the beats in their heads, I gathered the ambition to no longer write poetry. I would spit it.
By Cali Loria3 years ago in Poets