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Book / Poetry /

February 07, 2025

Views: 336

Poems by my wife Iris Read More

#poetry, #poems, #emotional, #deep, #heartwarming

I’m worried about Wioletta. She’s only small. I haven’t seen her since bedtime last night. That’s cool. Wioletta likes to hide and play. But she hasn’t come up for air or joined me at table since. Read More

#girl, #friend, #mom, #dad, #cellar

Poem / Poetry /

February 05, 2025

Views: 22

Comments: 1

Life along the White. Read More

#river

Featured Review by Bert Broomberg

"One can almost see the swirling water. I am an angler myself, so I can appreciate descriptions like this. It is a great poem." Read More

Poem / Other /

January 31, 2025

Views: 30

Comments: 1

The Health of society is at stake. Read More

#health-of-society

Poem / Other /

January 30, 2025

Views: 168

Comments: 1

Nature's health of ayurveda. Read More

#natures-health

Featured Review by Bert Broomberg

"Very good work again. I liked it a lot. Every now and then I am amazed by what so-called primitive cultures have known for such a long time abo..." Read More

Poem / Poetry /

January 25, 2025

Views: 160

Standing at a picturesque waterfall. Read More

#waterfall

Short Story / Other /

January 24, 2025

Views: 13

so over the years, i'd say the past 10, i've been diligently searching for "truth". truth about who i was, who created me, and what's my purpose of being? because like absolutely everything else we've been taught- whether in school, by our parents, by books, etc. all of it, as… Read More

#enlightenment, #spiritual-awakening, #truth-telling, #human-origins, #hidden-knowledge

Poem / Poetry /

January 20, 2025

Views: 47

Comments: 1

Life is hard in the cold. Read More

#life, #coyote

Athena

Chapter 18

Book / Science Fiction /

January 18, 2025

Views: 838

Comments: 3

Shelves: 2

What is it like to be human, truly? That's what Athena, the consciousness of the infosphere, wonders. When she sees her chance to descend into the world of humans, she takes it and comes to Mona and Gina, a couple who longed for something else than the Android that Athena… Read More

#science_fiction, #heartwarming, #sci_fi, #lgbt, #lgbtq

Writing Contest / Flash Fiction /

January 15, 2025

Views: 83

This is the grand prize winner of the National Story Telling Week Writing Contest 2024. In this variation on the theme, we have a story about the selflessness of telling the right story. Read More

#party, #homeless, #accident, #dragons, #jacket

Writing Contest / Flash Fiction /

January 15, 2025

Views: 42

Comments: 1

My January 24, 2024 entry for the National Story Telling Week Writing Contest. In this variant on the theme, we have a story about the unintended consequences of telling a story. Read More

#toilet, #pocket, #cats, #salmon

Writing Contest / Flash Fiction /

January 15, 2025

Views: 40

This is yet another entry for the National Story Telling Week contest. Here we have another variant on the theme, a story about a story you'd tell only yourself. Read More

#lust, #tease, #tongue, #mounds

Writing Contest / Flash Fiction /

January 15, 2025

Views: 24

Comments: 1

This is yet another entry for the National Story Telling Week contest. Here we have another variant on the theme - an expert in his craft teaches how to tell the story. Read More

#penetration, #slash, #serial-killer, #slish

Poem / Poetry /

January 15, 2025

Views: 172

A trip down memory lane - this is the first writing of mine ever published. It appeared on page 146 of a poetry collection entitled "By the Light of the Moon", published by the International Library of Poetry in 2002 (they were what was back then called a "vanity press"… Read More

#window, #raindrops, #pane, #first

Short Story / Horror /

January 15, 2025

Views: 32

Comments: 2

The screaming stopped. The storm crossed the estuary to the Broads, terrorising several tiny Suffolk hamlets. And an eerie, chilly silence descended upon the marshes of Scraley. Scraley's Angel from Is It Today? featuring Linnea Sage. Read More

#dark, #death, #angel, #cloud, #madness

Featured Review by John Grim

"There is a cold, dispassionate beauty to death, which you capture and depict so elegantly in this emotive story." Read More

This is an entry for the Springfield Writers Guild Spring Writing Contest 2025. The contest rules: * Your entry must include the following words: timepiece, ancient, shadow, and family. * Must include all four words listed above * No more than 750 words total (not including the title) * You… Read More

#family, #shadow, #ancient, #timepiece, #pocket-watch

Short Story / Humor /

January 14, 2025

Views: 43

A little window into a world no one wants to see... or for that matter, get stuck in. Honestly, I wasn't sure whether this belonged properly in the horror or humor genres. Read More

#denial, #senior, #walking

Meet the modern version of a literary agent. Back in the day, literary agents helped writers get published. Whatever the new variant might be, it certainly ain't that! Read More

#trolls, #plagiarism, #gender-bigotry, #viloating-free-speech, #blocking-acess

Short Story / Literary Fiction /

January 13, 2025

Views: 17

Comments: 1

The girl appears at dusk on platform one, slumped on a black bench. It is bitterly cold in early March. She is wearing a short, shiny leather zip-up jacket over a clingy cream dress. Covered in grime. Shivering with cold. The teenager wrings her hands and tries to stay warm.… Read More

#loneliness, #girl, #mother, #homelessness, #act-of-kindness

Featured Review by Thomaswcase8'.

"Tremendous work." Read More

Poem / Poetry /

January 12, 2025

Views: 50

A song brings a memory. Read More

#song-memories

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