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Where I am living

By samhennig on Tue, 19 Dec 2023

It’s winter, and where I am living the ground is either rock solid and jagged, jutting at angles which turn your ankles as you walk. Or the mud has...

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Nick Cave is Working

By socialeaf on Tue, 19 Dec 2023

Pic is my own

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Yuletide Loops

By mac_ashton on Mon, 18 Dec 2023

Yuletide Loops Bill stands at the edge of a circle filled with people he has seen every day for almost a year. His hands are shaking, but he does his...

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It's only life. Autobiographical.

By Mentalelf on Mon, 18 Dec 2023

I've been writing short autobiographical stories, all true, and maybe one day i'll have my life in words. Its only life. We walked from a black...

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A Letter to Lachlann

By Justin Tuijl on Mon, 18 Dec 2023

Farquhar Hubert Solomon applied his peeler to a potato and slid away a section of skin. Oh, Deòiridh, he said. Yes? Tell me, when did Lachlann last...

Hellish Heaven 2

By celticman on Sun, 17 Dec 2023

The examination couch had greenish paper towels covering it. I was scared more than humiliated. Cool and sticky. My presence on the couch soon to be...

Drama

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shatter

By Justin Tuijl on Sun, 17 Dec 2023

(I self-published a book of 201 poems and this was the titile poem, written March 2020, before the world went mad) i find a wilderness walk the size...

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Born To Die (Warning may offend).

By Mentalelf on Sat, 16 Dec 2023

Born To Die (Warning may offend). We are born to die within that murky truth we fly. But inside we lie. Wings of clay carry us away. People search...

Spiritual

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Hellish Heaven

By celticman on Sat, 16 Dec 2023

The Receptionist answered on the third of fourth ring, giving out the same information in a robotic monotone. There were no doctor’s appointments...

Drama

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The Adventures Of Little Sham - Chapter 5 (Part 1)

By mcscraic on Sat, 16 Dec 2023

The Adventures Of Little Sham A Novel by Paul McCann Chapter Five The Land Of Tir Na Oge Part 1 In the early hours of the morning the Greenacres were...

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the drive back

By Justin Tuijl on Sat, 16 Dec 2023

we’re half way home an hour left to drive the car is old and the steering is vague a wheel bearing is noisy, the headlights are dim we have finished...

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The magnanimous today

By Itane Vero on Sat, 16 Dec 2023

I'm in a hurry. I still have to go to the hairdresser. I want to write an article about winter depression at Sumo wrestlers. There is a birthday...

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Though the kingfishers looked

By Justin Tuijl on Fri, 15 Dec 2023

Though the kingfishers looked So beautiful; specks of shocking blue Against the dead green and dark water. They chased each other like in love -- And...

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Harbour Lights (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 46)

By philwhiteland on Fri, 15 Dec 2023

Why does everything get more complicated, the closer you get to home? That is a question that Archibald and D.I. Wood could definitely agree on!

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Parcel for you...Part 10

By Jane Hyphen on Fri, 15 Dec 2023

On the drive back from her mother’s house, a sense of guilt began to proliferate in the rear voids of Vanessa’s consciousness. At first she attempted...

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Tumbling river and tangled footpath

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 13 Dec 2023

Near Gladestry (11/12/23) The sun was shining, we scrambled down the squelchy leaf-mould, mulch-carpet sloping floor of the riverside wood. (There...

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Brodie's Big Idea

By Jane Hyphen on Wed, 13 Dec 2023

‘I’m really impressed with what you’ve done in the garden, Brodie.’ Brodie flicked his oily hair and blinked, he didn’t like compliments. He already...