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Sodium Song

By ralph on Fri, 11 Nov 2016

Excrement drifting streets pushed by forty five degree winds and needle rain from an icy syringe. The nameless are encouraged by the godless. A...
Philosophy
Poem
Certificate U

Downpour(II-1): El Dorado

By mac_ashton on Fri, 11 Nov 2016

Book II The City of Gold 1. El Dorado The woman looked up from her phone to interrupt. “Sorry Nick, this is really embarrassing, but I forgot I’m...
Fantasy
Humour
Story
Certificate 18

Statement: Carpe Diem, everything on the table

By seannelson on Fri, 11 Nov 2016

Greetings. Thanks for reading. While I'm in the outward communicaton mode, there are a few more things I should say. I have no ties whatsoever with...
Non-fiction
Certificate U

Bright November Late Afternoon

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 11 Nov 2016

[The photo is of another day, and time of day, and weather, but the same place]
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Statement: addendum, clarification

By seannelson on Fri, 11 Nov 2016

Okay, so I've seen as much chaos and war as the next man, but I'm actually a bit of a peacenik. And I can't stand threats... our culture has a...
Non-fiction
Certificate U
1 likes

Repudiated Love

By Verity Valentine on Fri, 11 Nov 2016

Between breaths I perch pensively silently distraught The dead occupations bourgeois I've been sold out I've been caught Foreign to this tounge...
Romance
Nature
Love
Poem
Certificate 12

Statement: Shift the Norm

By seannelson on Fri, 11 Nov 2016

#ShiftTheNorm I was just listening to a man on MSNBC who, while being taking seriously(understandably but incorrectly) was talking about 'normalcy'...
Non-fiction
Certificate U

Brians Gift.

By jolono on Fri, 11 Nov 2016

Brian Reynolds had a gift. A rare gift that only special people have. A gift that doesn’t even have a name. Some might call it charisma or...
Other Fiction
Story
Certificate 15

Twink

By Ed Crane on Fri, 11 Nov 2016

I was eighteen, she was sixteen. Everybody fancied Twink.
Romance
Biography
Story
Certificate 15
1 likes
Cherry

If Clapton Played the Banjo

By Ewan on Fri, 11 Nov 2016

a little odd, but then so is the world
Surreal
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Crassus and his Golden Tongue

By Kilb50 on Fri, 11 Nov 2016

53BC. Marcus Licinius Crassus, the wealthiest man in Rome, and member of the First Triumvirate, launches a military campaign against the Parthian Empire in pursuit of ever greater riches and glory. It doesn't end well.
Poem
Certificate 15
Cherry

The Granada Scorpio Mystery.

By jolono on Thu, 10 Nov 2016

I have no idea what happened to him. I told the Police exactly that. One day he was there and the next day he was gone. There were lots of theories...
Other Fiction
Story
Certificate PG
Gold cherry

Bulletproof (for 11/11/16)

By jennifer on Thu, 10 Nov 2016

Bulletproof You’re alone with God tonight, Duty made you join the fight. Here you are: a field in France - Cold and fear, you’re in a trance… Orders...
Poem
Certificate PG

'Of Politics and Policy,' dedicated to Presid. Donald J Trump

By seannelson on Thu, 10 Nov 2016

Dear President-elect Donald J. Trump, As you transition from your victorious business career into the Presidency, you will of course be receiving a...
Non-fiction
Certificate U
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Downpour(8): Yacumama

By mac_ashton on Thu, 10 Nov 2016

8. Yacumama There was barely time to think. Beneath the river in front of them, two glowing dots appeared, small at first, but quickly growing larger...
Fantasy
Humour
Story
Certificate 18

Fame

By skinner_jennifer on Thu, 10 Nov 2016

This is a rewrite of a piece I wrote many years ago. It's scary this stressed out complex life that took Nina to the top, when reaching number one...
Love
Poem
Certificate 12

Blackbird In The Snow

By well-wisher on Thu, 10 Nov 2016

1. I see you, blackbird in the snow whistling against the winds that blow; pecking and scratching at the ground while freezing snowflakes fall around...
Spiritual
Nature
Other
Certificate U

The Traveller And His Companions

By well-wisher on Thu, 10 Nov 2016

Once, through a wintry wood, there came a traveller in the cowelled habit of a monk with a walking staff in his hand. He looked like a pilgrim on...
Fantasy
Children's
Nature
Story
Certificate U
Cherry

The Leather-Cloth Wars (Poetry Monthly)

By Ed Crane on Thu, 10 Nov 2016

I hope other writers will have a go at this. It's fun and it would be sad to lose Poetry Monthly
Historical Fiction
Poetry Monthly
Certificate PG

The Lights In The Sky.

By jolono on Thu, 10 Nov 2016

There had been strange lights in the sky before. But never like this. This was more like Morse code for Aliens. A short burst of two lights, then a...
Other Fiction
Story
Certificate U

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