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The Benefit of a Bad Beginning

March 20, 2025March 18, 2025Kim Farleigh 1

A bad start in life gives the good things that finally come a rare preciousness.

Tic toc

March 20, 2025March 21, 2025Colin Ian Jeffery 0

Time, relentless and hard
Sweeps me swiftly forward

Happy Birthday Dad

March 20, 2025March 11, 2025Duane Anderson 0

Written on my father’s 100th birthday. Even though he left this world many years ago, he will never be forgotten by me.

Raging Rails and Campfire Tales

December 20, 2024March 20, 2025Jonathan Ferrini 0

Mysterious artifacts are found inside a Mojave desert construction site leading to unexpected reunions for a contractor and his wife.

Ruminating Spume

December 20, 2024March 20, 2025Sultana Raza 0

A bottle on a Mediterranean beach provokes childhood nostalgia.

Chrysanthemum

December 20, 2024March 20, 2025Fhen M. 0

Inspired from the verse “Requiescat” written by an Anglo-Irish poet. Chrysanthemum, however, is dedicated to my late grandmother.

Birthing Pains

December 20, 2024March 20, 2025Lynn White 0

Giving birth in a war zone

Modernist Poetry

September 20, 2024December 20, 2024Colin Ian Jeffery 0

Modernist literature is characterized by a break with traditions of literary subjects, forms, concepts and styles.

An Inconvenient Truth

September 20, 2024December 20, 2024Mary Walsh Foley 0

A mother’s reaction to her daughter’s unplanned pregnancy.

Wretch

September 20, 2024December 20, 2024Tanitoluwa Adefisan 0

A story of a son looking for redemption after committing a grievous mistake years ago.

Jack in the Box

September 20, 2024December 20, 2024Frank J. Albert 0

Do we ever really know our parents, or do we only think we do? Can an adult have a “coming of age” experience?

the devil’s fingers

September 20, 2024December 20, 2024Scott Taylor 0

a murderer
doesn’t realize

A Rhetorical Question

September 20, 2024December 20, 2024Bunny Moon 0

A complicated response to a rhetorical question.

April’s Foul Day

June 20, 2024September 20, 2024Dimitris Passas 0

This is a short story on grief and loss.

Oh Bobby, Why Didn’t You Look?

June 20, 2024September 20, 2024Ed Walsh 0

The accidental death of a child and the impact upon his family and his father’s lover.

Woowo

June 20, 2024September 20, 2024Douglas Stoiber 0

A teenage girl learns of her grandfather’s horrifying death.

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