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I stare at the flow of the little river, watching the cascade of water continuing at a constant speed. I look and watch and take it all in and try to drink in the knowledge it holds and the secrets it possesses.
It offers the potential for understanding. Everything must flow in one constant direction, always moving...

358 words by R Crombie

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Published 3 years ago

Courage in the New Year

Two days before New Years Eve. I was hunched under a bush watching the door of the liquor mart open and close. A never ending line of people walked in, then out, holding bottles of champagne, whiskey, vodka, anything to bring in the New Year. I shivered as a snow flurry hit my face and the wind...

630 words by K Johnson

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Published 5 years ago

Seven Days to Kill

NT Franklin

I had seven days left to kill him. The trial started Monday. The date had been etched in my mind since September.
I’d gone three days without listening to my babies’ voices. It was more than I could take. I...

755 words by N Franklin

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Published 6 years ago

"They say I snatched you from the world above
Bound you with pomegranates, cast a spell
Bribed you with architecture. It’s not so.
Friendship is complicated, life is, love,
Your work the growing world, my task is Hell
You come back always, always have to go."
-Hades and Persephone by Jo Walton

The first time I...

280 words by H Fischer

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Published 7 years ago

The light

In the dank stillness of the tunnels deep beneath the Castillo de Santiago, Michel's eyes struggled to adjust to the inhospitable blackness. Galen had gone ahead of their small group, the Quartermaster leading the first party siege into the
northwest passage. His footsteps echoed hollow in the eerie...

224 words by A Kendall

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Published 7 years ago

Another universe
By Soma Bose

Sara broke into cry and I remained speechless,
it was beyond my effort to refrain her from
weeping.
I promised her to take our mother back alive
from the hospital but doctors declared her dead.
Still I tried to console her, “Don’t cry my dear, God has
taken away her spirit...

998 words by s bose

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Published 7 years ago

When he got home he was blind and deaf. Passed the sobbing girl on the couch with a stumble and fumbled his way to the kitchen water filter. Filled it up a few time and poured a few glasses down this throat. As her sobs got louder, he switched to a different glass, taking gulps of the water. After a couple of minutes he...

779 words by D Partner

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Published 7 years ago

"I'm sitting in a room with my books, and I'm locked in to my study pattern so deep I can't see the doors. I have a test tomorrow, and I don't feel ready. I collapse and fall asleep. The walls are now covered in words, blocks of text that shift and warp as I try to read them. A breath to regain composure, sharpness of...

273 words by T Mullen

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Published 7 years ago

Tatia

It was a hot and humid night. Tatia could see the shaded black crows flying viciously above her, outside the window of the carriage.
It was the year 1501, on a beautiful Sunday evening. The guests were gracefully entering the castle at seven o'clock, for a grand ball in Transylvania. She was only seventeen...

486 words by D Da Costa Nunes

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Published 7 years ago

It was a typical summer Wednesday morning for the kindergarden class of John A. Gordon Public School. The day was bright and sunny, and the kids were inside with their Reading Buddies, a fifth grade class that got shuffled down to the ground floor on a weekly basis to bestow their guidance upon the unformed minds of Mr...

937 words by J Stern

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Published 8 years ago

Longing

It felt wrong, but just for a moment. That moment passed as swiftly as the glow of a firefly. She did not know what to do or who to confide to - she did not even know if she should be confiding this to anybody - but she was restless, fidgety. She knew that people could sense her preoccupation, but she...

674 words by N Varma

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Published 8 years ago

It’s like a ball gag in your mouth. Your body so tied up you can’t even try to struggle. Forget about feeling, that’s gone too. This is the bondage no masochist would sign up for. Your eyes strain to open but, sure enough, they too have been held down. At least they won’t dry out like your skin. You can’t take a breath...

295 words by G Fehrer

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Published 8 years ago

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