Gabriel Huizenga

Joined November 2022

118 stories

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Twas for love of words that I first joined this site:

Poetry, especially, and dear short stories too;

For to live one's best is to read, and to write!

So find me in words here, and I'll find you 💙

Thanks for stopping by! :)

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Strange Hope. Runner-up in Moment of Silence Challenge.
Sublimity rarely struts, but often Invites, meekly, those who already seek her, to Listen earnestly to the misty sunrise
By Gabriel Huizengaabout a year ago in Poets
Impressions
Still life everywhere requires an appreciative artist; In the quiet in-between moments, in cafés and aboard trains, Life makes painters of us all.
By Gabriel Huizengaabout a year ago in Poets
First Mate
The crackling of the boarding device faded as Rodney Trask stepped out onto the deck of The Inevitability. A magnificent view greeted him: broad planks of sparkling mahogany, burnished brass guardrails, and at the other end of the ship, well-oiled doors to the crew’s quarters and captain’s cabin. One slim metal mast, sailless and shining, stood halfway between Trask and the stern. Off the sides of the vessel, ripples of otherworldly colors undulated silent and sublime: the Time Sea.
By Gabriel Huizengaabout a year ago in Fiction
This is Quite Frustrating
A notification awaits me, as to Vocal Media I log in; Shimmering red, a crimson crystal, bearing a surprise within! Did a dear friend produce a work which I might this day enjoy?
By Gabriel Huizengaabout a year ago in Poets
To Lovers of Story Everywhere. Top Story - August 2024.
Ms. Ella N. Buckley, age fourteen, future author of great renown; For Mrs. Rocky’s freshman honors class “Share About Your Hero” homework.
By Gabriel Huizengaabout a year ago in Fiction
Eighty years or so
I have always craved certainty, particularly in regard to those two hidden treasures, identity and purpose; are we not all compelled at some point to query,
By Gabriel Huizengaabout a year ago in Poets
Trail
I used to believe that you left me on this shadowy, unmapped path; but truth treks alongside me, shows how my wayward heart
By Gabriel Huizengaabout a year ago in Poets
Sunrise
I used to believe that I left you, peering through mists of pain and time; yet truth, this morning, rises: I was never enough.
By Gabriel Huizengaabout a year ago in Poets
Elsewhere
It is not as though your warmth faded, so much as it shifted away; like the low tide, you sought for some sweeter, wiser shore.
By Gabriel Huizenga2 years ago in Poets
Airport Love. First Place in Breakup Nonet Challenge.
Here is a small, strange, and telling thing: I have always loved the airport. My heart for the liminal, and moments ungrounded -
By Gabriel Huizenga2 years ago in Poets
In Defense of Abstract Art. Top Story - June 2024.
I don’t get it. As far as I can tell, there just isn’t any meaning. What if you brought along the need for such existential gleaning?
By Gabriel Huizenga2 years ago in Poets
Without Pretense. Runner-up in Dialogue Poetry Challenge.
I had a strange and lingering thought, sometime just the other day. A deeply concerning event, most of us sensible folks find.
By Gabriel Huizenga2 years ago in Poets