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		<title>Dead Peppers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damian Rucci</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another poem which I&#8217;m planning to place in the book Letters from the Garden.   &#160; I walked into the garden through rows of tomatoes. Bees dancing through pollen quarries, the soil alive with each dying breath of silk-green leaves like chloro-lungs, playing with the air. Islands of peppers and cucumbers content in their soils, hungry for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegraypen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7921780&amp;post=777&amp;subd=thegraypen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Reasons to Nanowrimo -Cool Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 23:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damian Rucci</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Found this pretty fitting for the month before Nanowrimo Filed under: Nanowrimo '11 Tagged: nanowrimo, video, writing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegraypen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7921780&amp;post=774&amp;subd=thegraypen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Project in Memory of my Grandfather</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damian Rucci</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Grandfather&#8217;s name was Oscar, but to the rest of the world he was Champ. Well, everyone was Champ to him. It was a name of admiration, if not hilarity, which lit his face up each day as he sipped his coffee and smoked his Parliaments. He was essentially the patriarch of the neighborhood and each person [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegraypen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7921780&amp;post=769&amp;subd=thegraypen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Soundtracks of our Lives</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damian Rucci</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it&#8217;s a disappointment that life doesn&#8217;t feature a built in soundtrack. Especially, for those epic moments or sorrowful nights. Music which would spawn on que from nothingness and remedy our situations, or perhaps inspire us to specific trails.Luckily, I find fiction to be a suseptable to such a depressing rule. Does music or background noise improve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegraypen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7921780&amp;post=762&amp;subd=thegraypen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Santa Claus, Panties, and Fifty Bucks.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damian Rucci</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Figured I&#8217;d share a short essay I wrote for class. I think it&#8217;s worth a chuckle or two. Let me know if you&#8217;d like me to post more nonfiction like essays, instead of just fiction and poetry &#160; &#160; &#160; Santa Claus, Panties, and Fifty Bucks &#160; It’s funny the trail that life takes you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegraypen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7921780&amp;post=751&amp;subd=thegraypen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The World in my Room</title>
		<link>http://thegraypen.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/the-world-in-my-room/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damian Rucci</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hiding in my room I think we found the world And the smoke in our lungs, it soothed-then burned But the blankets covered us from all that cold We swam between each and every fabric fold Convinced we found our place, in a queen-size bed Next to cyberspace. The headlights of the cars would share [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegraypen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7921780&amp;post=747&amp;subd=thegraypen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>35 Days: Nanowrimo is Coming</title>
		<link>http://thegraypen.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/35-days-nanowrimo-is-coming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damian Rucci</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nanowrimo- National Novel Writing Month. Starting November 1 and ending November 30th. Writers from around the world dedicate the month to beginning and completing an entire novel. Hello blog friends and readers, yesterday I registered on Nanowrimo and drafted a 150 word summary for my planned novel. Last year, I hoped to join this awesome contest, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegraypen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7921780&amp;post=744&amp;subd=thegraypen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review- The Commander and Den Asaan Raatu</title>
		<link>http://thegraypen.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/book-review-the-commander-and-den-asaan-raatu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damian Rucci</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello readers- ladies, gentleman, and those of the third kind how has everyone been? I&#8217;ve been busy with writing and college life which is actually very worthwhile (in my humble opinion). Upon my return to The Gray Pen I have decided to review a book of a fellow writer I from twitter Michelle Franklin. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegraypen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7921780&amp;post=736&amp;subd=thegraypen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Inspiration</title>
		<link>http://thegraypen.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/new-inspiration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damian Rucci</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m today I&#8217;m taking a break from The Harry Potter Effect which you can find the last article post here. The next article in the series will be up by tomorrow 5pm Eastern time on parallels between the Wizarding World and the world of our own. &#160; The novel has always been an aspiration of mine, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegraypen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7921780&amp;post=715&amp;subd=thegraypen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poem- Graduation &#8211; Old Song</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damian Rucci</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well I haven&#8217;t shared a poem here in a while and it&#8217;s sad to admit that I&#8217;ve become slightly rusted; so needless to say I&#8217;ve been writing loads of stuff to draft up some new material. Here&#8217;s a song I wrote for my old band on our demo CD. Some of the lyrics are slightly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegraypen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7921780&amp;post=708&amp;subd=thegraypen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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