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If You Never Leave?
Death was reading Wilma’s manuscript as she typed away another project. She didn’t mind them sitting in the armchair by the window of her office; she had long since gotten use to their quiet presence. Anxiety grows tedious with age, especially at one-hundred-and-forty.
By Conor Matthews9 months ago in Fiction
Fairy Circles in My Mind
Fee ~*~ Fairy Entry ~*~ Trailing off Amongst the Daffodils ~*~ Oversown patch Curious hill Dry, thatching grass Gold dots, taupe ruts
By K.B. Silver 9 months ago in Poets
The Conference
EARTH ROOM IX OPERATION 11235 DEBATE IN SESSION Thomas stared at the Conference room door, filled with both dread and relief. He had finally made it to the room. He was surprised he had even made it this far. He had come with two others, but they’d been caught earlier. He just prayed no one would be on his trail. He had never met a Counselman, let alone a Headmaster before. The woman at the front desk—if that was a woman—didn’t notice, but she might not have ever been on Earth before… Maybe a Counselman or the Headmaster would be able to tell…
By Belle9 months ago in Futurism
Mirrors in Motion
Mirrors in Motion The words you speak, the way you stand, The kindness offered with an open hand, The anger flung like stones at night,
By Gabriela Tone9 months ago in Poets
The Immortals
Julie sat at the back of her classroom, just like always. She hated school — and history was the worst lesson of all. Her parents had warned her never to believe what the teachers said about the past.
By Daniel Millington9 months ago in Futurism
Archie's Plastic Paradise
I've been reading Archie comics off and on for a while, but I'll be damned if I can remember a single, solitary story or plotline with any certainty. Somewhere along the way, I heard Archie described as "Leave It to Beaver after a corporate lobotomy," a sardonic, ironic line that made me laugh out loud while rolling across the floor slapping the tiles like a human emoji.
By Tom Baker9 months ago in Geeks
The Shut-in (part 2 of 2). Content Warning.
The is the second and final part of “The Shut-in”. If you would like to read part one then you can do so below: **** For a moment you again hear their faint voices in the back of your head. Argh. “You know what will happen - why do you do this to yourself? You must not open the door and leave,” are their words.
By Grz Colm9 months ago in Fiction
Lucy’s fear
At night, the woods are an entirely different world. Whilst during the day, there’s a breeze of magic with fairytale feeling at times, the dark hours awaken mystery, and sometimes … fear.
By Susan Fourtané 9 months ago in Fiction
Solo Plight. Content Warning.
It was never about you. It was the smoke you carried in your mouth, spilling around me like an old jazz club, thick, sweet, and dangerous
By Lolly Vieira9 months ago in Poets
“Spring Is Lovely This Time of Year”
For the following challenge (not one of my best, but still...): Day One: “War to be confirmed; major urban centers cleared; leaders declare martial law; chaos ensues.”
By Kendall Defoe 9 months ago in Horror
Until I Had None Left To Give
So, I already had an entry for this challenge, and would have loved to have done something using my voice, etc., but I do not really have the resources or the budget for that. My first entry was solely the lyrics and structure, with lots of information about how I would have composed it if I had the time, resources, and skills.
By Paul Stewart9 months ago in Beat
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish. Winner in Light Breaks Water Challenge.
If a crystal pyramid sits where his head should be, do not resist bathing first in the holy disco and ecstatic beat of your forgotten longings.
By Morgana9 months ago in Poets
fighting back with gratitude
Life has kicked my ass lately. But that's okay because I fight back, even when I am feeling down in the gutter. Strength isn’t always loud or glamorous. Sometimes it is honestly just quietly choosing to keep going and to believe that better days are still ahead.
By Chloe Rose Violet 🌹9 months ago in Journal
Earth Day
Every day should be Earth Day, a day when we step outside and marvel at the earth we live on. At how blue the sky is and how every cloud is different. How every tree stands in place, and every flower blooms without any idea of how beautiful they are. How the breeze rustles leaves and flags, and clothes hanging on clotheslines wave deliriously to and fro. The water sparkles from the sun's light over a sky blue reflection, and for a moment in time all the world is right.
By Colleen Walters9 months ago in Poets
2016 CAVALIERS
He remembered when she gave him that box, wrapped with a little gold bow. He may not have had the best grades, that was always her, always, but it didn’t take a genius to see how excited she was. Looking back, it was crazy how young they both were, yet seemed like yesterday.
By Matthew J. Fromm9 months ago in Fiction
🎶Melancholy’s Enemy🎶. Honorable Mention in Harmonic Verses Challenge.
You can listen here: https://youtu.be/oKNZ6mqlN1c?si=InDJUIYwt-Z1MpuI (Sorry to make you go to a separate page. I sang and recorded this entire thing on Soundtrap and realized at the very last minute before the deadline that the WAV file is not compatible with Vocal. 😭 I was super bummed because I worked really hard on this. However, I figured out shortly after that I could screen record it from Soundtrap and upload it to YouTube. Unfortunately, the option to embed the link was no longer available at that point. However, it’s better than nothing! ☺️
By Gina C.9 months ago in Beat
Wildfire. Honorable Mention in Harmonic Verses Challenge.
I've always liked the story of Moses and the burning bush. If you really think about it, a burning bush symbolizing God is a far more powerful summary of a deity than anything relegated to an image of a mortal, made more understandable by a human face:
By Amelia9 months ago in Beat
Bound by Fate
I was excited to write a song again because I haven’t written one in a long time. I lost my passion and inspiration after I lost someone from my family, but I am glad I found it again. I wrote this song because I really wanted to tell my story of how I met the only man I have ever truly loved. Plus, my best friend had been pushing me to go back to writing songs, and she had been telling me for a while now to write a song about my love story. I wasn’t sure if I would ever fall in love again because the last man, I was with hurt me so deeply, and I wasn’t sure if I wanted to give my heart away again. But that’s when I started my freshman year in college, and I found the man that had now stolen my heart. We both started off as best friends in college but, then we had gone our separate ways. He was a super senior in college and I was a freshman. I was instantly locked on him when I first him, but my heart was still guarded. I was in denial with what I was feeling but I couldn’t, and I knew what it was. I have never fallen that hard for someone before but, something felt just so right about him. I should have told him at the end of that one year how I felt before he left to go to graduate school. But we then were reunited 7 years later, and as we were getting to know each other all over again. I was wondering if I really was falling in love all over again, but I was keeping my heart guarded. But there was just something so magnetic that kept pulling me toward him, and I was listening to my intuition and I just felt safe around him. I kept wondering whether I should tell him how I feel or not; or I could keep asking myself what would happen if I didn’t. But shortly afterwards, we both ended up confessing our true feelings for one another that we both hid from one another after all these years. After being with him for the last couple of years I have learned a lot of lessons which changed both me and him for the better. So, I mostly want to dedicate this song to him and show how much he truly means to me and show how we’ve gotten this far even with just a few bumps in the road that were doable, and that we can weather any storm.
By Joanna Blaze9 months ago in Beat
Show That You Really Do Care
“Always end your day with a Positive thought and a grateful heart” For one thing, you’ll sleep well. Ending the day with something Positive
By Ruth Elizabeth Stiff9 months ago in Poets
my favorite movie magic is reel to reel
Spoiler alert: This whole damn article is a spoiler! The film begins with a zither filling the screen, its strings vibrating behind the opening credits while its hidden musician plays one of the great musical scores in movie history. When the opening credits end a British narrator introduces us to post-war Vienna, a city divided into four zones by its occupying Armies: British, American, Russian and French. In its center an international force shares the responsibility for its policing with all the nasty political ramifications you might expect.
By John Cox9 months ago in Writers