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After You'd Gone

By Angusfolklore on Sat, 11 Apr 2026

After you'd gone, sometimes we would wake and find you still there in the favourite chair, in the dust-ridden front room alive with the sunlight...

Spiritual

Certificate PG

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Ridgeline - Part Four: Wrong Direction

By SoulFire77 on Sat, 11 Apr 2026

She picked left. No reason. The trail forked where she stood — not a real fork, just the loop continuing in both directions — and she picked left...

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Penny’s Pass the Story Part 10

By marandina on Fri, 10 Apr 2026

Part 9 at: https://www.abctales.com/story/penny4athought/pass-story-chapter-9 Penny’s 'Pass the Parcel’ Part 10 Milton wanted to flick another rolled...

Crime

Certificate 15

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Joe - a dinosaur theme park story with hotdogs.

By drew_gummerson on Fri, 10 Apr 2026

Joe This morning Hodges tells me I’m on triceratops. I don’t do triceratops I say and he says you don’t do triceratops there’s a million other smart-...

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Sounds of the City

By seannelson on Fri, 10 Apr 2026

The sounds of the city, mixed with my mind, is all I can take some insomniac nights: the quiet yet throbbing hum of street-lights; the steady, lion-...

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Ridgeline - Part Three: The Cut

By SoulFire77 on Thu, 09 Apr 2026

She didn't run. She should have run. The Civic was sixty yards ahead and the stroller was built for jogging and her legs had been running twenty...

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Ridgeline - Part Two: The Man on the Trail

By SoulFire77 on Thu, 09 Apr 2026

Her hands moved first. Before she registered the cargo shorts or the 5K t-shirt or the mask bunched under his chin — before any of that assembled...

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Ridgeline - Part One: The Trail

By SoulFire77 on Thu, 09 Apr 2026

The walls were doing it again. Not moving — she wasn't that far gone. But the apartment had a way of pressing inward at four o'clock, when the blinds...

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The Autumn Leaf

By JP Brown on Thu, 09 Apr 2026

Green Leaves Turn to Brown

Talecatching

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The Oaks Flower

By JP Brown on Thu, 09 Apr 2026

The Greatest and The Least

Talecatching

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The Beautiful Song

By JP Brown on Thu, 09 Apr 2026

I write the Songs

Talecatching

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Pass the Penny Story Challenge 10.

By celticman on Thu, 09 Apr 2026

Jenny wanted to wrap herself in the bearskin rug on the cabin floor and take refuge in the forest. She didn’t want to kill anybody, but her daughter...

Noir

Certificate 12

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Three Cinquains

By Frances Macaulay Forde on Thu, 09 Apr 2026

You Glow You glow with love for me. Accepting all I give, never questioning if I love. I don’t. T ears F all Tears fall like rivers of pain...

Biography

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Did you know?

By Frances Macaulay Forde on Thu, 09 Apr 2026

This one's from my 1968 Notebook - actually written in 1970. I was 20 and into Astrology. Did you know? Did you know that Cancer was compatible with...

Romance

Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)

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Don't lose your cheer

By Sir Loin on Thu, 09 Apr 2026

Have you lost your cheer? Oh dear! Because of what you think is near? Well I bear good news that you must hear, and I aim to make it very clear. That...