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Rachel Eckermann 8

Gabriel knew that it was the people who went through the greatest traumas who made the best mediums. His emotions were completely frozen by...

Shut Down

Shut Down P K Routray Pretty politics at highest level in the advanced country United States of America leading the human race ahead. For seventeenth...

Rachel Eckermann 7

The lights turned on abruptly. Claire was gone. The table was gone. Etienne could not stand the light. It was so bright. She exited the restroom. "...

Mr. Old School

"Testing, testing, one, two, three, testing, testing" I said into the old dude's business I was holding in my grip like an MC's microphone. He let...

Autumn, To Some

To some, the Autumn season may seem duller; to me, it’s misty, magical and mellow; trees blazing with the most amazing colours; a rhapsody in red,...
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The Treasures of Autumn

Silver is the Autumn moon; stars, scattered diamonds, many fold; luxurious, the carpet strewn of leaves like bright and burnished gold. Silken are...

Brevity.

In one foul movement everything’s changed. In hope of trust, and worship, let the bees fly, with or without stingers, as long as wings flap. Passing...

The Grim Raver

Where'd that come from then?

Vicious

Welcome, sit, rest, share – What troubles your soul? And as you speak I will dismantle you word by word Strip, demolish and destroy. Cutting through...

I am cutting back the lavender

I am cutting back the lavender Taking back this year’s growth Lopping amythst bullet clusters That have dried to grey pustules Burst by seeds long...
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Wrong Number

We are scratched, An old 45 forever repeating. We are a frozen image, Digitally sharp but caught in time. We are a film slipped out of kilter Words...
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Surface Tension - Chapter 5

Chapter 5 It’s late. It seems to have been dark since midday. I’m alone in the library grateful to escape the collective tinnitus of the outside...

Set In Stone chapter 3

As the weeks passed we fell into a routine. One with as little of contact as possible between the two of us. The only time we saw each other, was...

Have You Ever Felt Like Your Drowning?

Not in water but words and emotions You fight the current and Wherever you turn Dark thoughts and feelings follow you   About how you hate everyone...

For my neighbour

All day, through a pack of plasterboard, my conchiglie ear’s noted knocks and scuffs. I think the neighbour is curating furniture. I think the...
Cherry

That Elusive Cure 32

I’d gone to sleep with a headache. Sleep was the wrong term to use. I lay in bed and tossed and turned and wished for sleep and a head that didn’t...

Love Kills

Melissa laid still as the shadows of the pure darkness had begun to swallow her body whole. As the sun had continued to fall from the sky yet again,...

Cobnuts and rosehips

My man is handsome, he wears a scarf to link seasons. Thin lipped autumn chairs the preservation meeting. We do love in a room suddenly filled with...

Elusive Woodland Birds

Soggy wood, early autumn bounty: seeds and insects, spiders’ webs, mixed tall tree tangle, whistling tweets surround up high, social gathering; necks...

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