Pick of the day
Risky Business
Posted by Tipp Hex on Tue, 15 Jan 2019
Like a raven shot in mid-flight, the black object pirouetted through the air and landed onto the car's windscreen, bounced once and fell heavily onto the hot tarmac.
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Chances ( 1)
Posted by jolono on Tue, 08 Jan 2019
A SHORT STORY IN TWO PARTS.I like to take chances. Some pay off and some don’t. But as my dear old dad used to say “You’ll never know, unless you have a go.” Bobby Philips was one of my big chances.Read more
Poem of the week
hard and fast and shiny
Posted by Di_Hard on Mon, 07 Jan 2019
we make our faces look
plastic like dolls we had
as children, un aging
if we can afford to
pay in plastic. Package
fruit so it won't go black
as air around an oil well stops
growing lungs, while we drink
from bottles dropped like rain
into the sea, drowning
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Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point
As always, it's been a pleasure to read all the wonderful contributions to the site - not only the poetry and prose, but also the generosity of you all when you take the time to give your support, encouragement and much appreciated help to each other - so a big...
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Our Story and Poem of the Month for December, very kindly chosen by rjnewlyn:
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STORY AND POEM OF THE MONTH
Story and Poem for the month of August very kindly chosen by Rhona Miller (love_writing):
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Picks of the Month
Words
Posted by rosaliekempthorne on Tue, 25 Dec 2018
All I want for Christmas is words.
Just a scatter of words. Just a handful.
I find my eyes drawn back towards the phone on the wall in the hallway – a retro scene, a lost time, our lost time…
I wait for it to ring.
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Instead a silver parcel at my doorstep. Shiny, light-catching foil paper, with a curly white ribbon about it. A little card on the top.
I crouch to read the card.
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Spring a Butterfly
Posted by Di_Hard on Sun, 23 Dec 2018
Dusty cocoon of box
tight packed through warmer days
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