Destruction stories, books, poems, and more

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The follow-up story to "An American Tale". When down on our luck, it so often seems that things snowball, making it easy to give up and isolate ourselves from society. Read More

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The Booksie Classic House

THIS IS AN ANTI RACISM, ANTI-WAR STORY: A dystopian city divided by cruel apartheid into purists and undesirables faces annihilation by robotic drones. Maria tells tales, informing the authorities of the whereabouts of undesirables, sending them to certain death. Widowed by warfare, she must fight to save herself and her… Read More

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Ruinate Duplicity means to be bought into a state of ruin by someone two-faced, someone who is deceitful. Read More

Book / Fantasy

November 06, 2023

In a post-apocalyptic world, a small young group of survivors must live together in an abandoned school. A deadly virus that changes flesh and metal into a terrible rusted force of destruction has driven all humans and animals into fearful hiding. All non-plant life struggles to survive the now rusted… Read More
A man observes kids in a activity not likely to be repeated. Read More

Poem / Poetry

June 29, 2023

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Eulogy for a hurricane struck home Read More
"Sirens" is a poem that sheds light on the reality of war and how it distorts children's lives and scars them for life. Read More

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Those waves could be dangerous. My poem. Read More

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During World War 2, a fifteen-year old boy falls in love with a girl ten years older who, every Thursday afternoon, comes to do the laundry for his mother... Read More

Poem / Poetry

July 05, 2022

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Comments: 2

Shelves: 2

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Some shadows are fun but these are not. Read More

Poem / Poetry

March 23, 2022

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Comments: 10

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Poem / Poetry

February 27, 2022

Reads: 748

Comments: 13

Shelves: 3

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Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay. A poem written for a prompt at the Imaginarium House. https://www.booksie.com/house-the-imaginarium-760 Read More

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"it's amazing how words can be so powerful. this poem is full of threat, desperation, thrilling, doom. It brings home the madness of the world s..." Read More

Poem / Poetry

February 09, 2022

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Comments: 5

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Dedicated to the people who perished on September 11, 2001 Read More

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Cover image: Hullabaloo22 on Pixabay.com. Read More

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The invasion fleet was poised to take the Earth by force, but would they succeed? Read More
Cyril with Elaine must get their group out of danger and to a new safe land but time is against them. Read More

Poem / Poetry

November 14, 2020

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Comments: 1

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A short poem about the Fire Girl Read More
Like the band 'My Chemical Romance' once sang, I'd say "Teenagers scare the living hell out of me." Read More
When a young man sees death and destruction for the first time, it can test his view of the world and how to live in such a world. Of course, his lack of education didn't help matters any. Read More
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