2005 Youth Scholarship Winner: Allan Drabble Allan Drabble is an emerging writer presently residing in Vancouver, BC where he helped to establish Banshee's Quill Writing Group. Allan's literary inspirations include Orson Scott Card and George Orwell. He has read his poetry at Under the Elephant Open Mic and Word Whips Writing Series. His poem 'Sonic Unity' was published on Vancouver Jazz Forum's web site: ww.vancouverjazz.com. Convenience Store Orgy We like cute orphans we like painless abortions we like freeze-dried meals with extra large portions we like convenience stores open for 24 hours we like thought controlling global powers we like romantic comedy and sitcoms we like surgically planted nuclear bombs we want camping without mosquitoes we want to rent satisfaction for our libidos we want the jones and we want the dow we want it all and we want it now we love mountains with escalators we love charismatic crime scene investigators we love sexy wars we love orgies in convenience stores Sonic Unity Music what a force it is transforming oxygen into audible emotion, fingers strumming, exposing character pounding skins causing a collective vibration. A couple, a room, a stadium, moving in unison singular heartbeat, a shared feeling twenty thousand voices joined in screaming soul to soul, feeling the pulse elevated beyond this existence. Music is mystical music is in all things as natural as breathing, twice as fun, if life is a storm music is the eye. I feel the muses calling me music drinks me and becomes me, my being is swallowed by the clouds of sound. We are little raindrops and music makes an ocean of us. Great waves crashing down upon the shores of life. Back to the Winners page Home