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To My Thoughts.... Content Warning.
To my thoughts‐ Why can't you exist in peace? Why must you fight? Why can't you all just get along? *sigh* Is this fire impossible to cease?
By Josh Morganabout a year ago in Poets
Consequence. Content Warning.
Angry welts burned where the ropes had dug into his skin. His fingers tingled as blood rushed to fill them after so long restrained. But the pain was glorious. The pain meant he was alive. It meant that this dark, cramped space was not Hell.
By Alexander McEvoyabout a year ago in Horror
Five Things I'd Like to Tell Orwell About
Many years ago, while working as a freelance, I was given monthly commissions to write articles for a management training company. Occasionally, I would be tasked with writing about Microsoft Office applications, and for one such, I sought my material via an old TV ad campaign for a mobile phone network.
By Joe Youngabout a year ago in Humor
The Play of Life
Life is a play, we are crying, I entered this world with the laughter of my loved ones, And leave this world amidst the cries of your loved ones and your own laughter.
By Emily Chan - Life and love sharingabout a year ago in Poets
The Drunken Showman
“Why are some people so good at art? Others are just angry.” People do weird things. We cry as we laugh, work hard to complain when we get drained, chase for something to toss aside once we get our hands on it, and hate boredom but tremble at anything intense.
By Jui Hanabout a year ago in Writers
Deny - Defend - Depose
I have been thinking about this for a while now, and you know what? I have decided, it is time to be upfront about what is going on. I am not here to play the victim, but to show the consequences of standing by your beliefs and how wrong so many people behave nowadays. It is baffling how some cannot differentiate between a good story and the beliefs of its author. In my opinion, that is just plain stupid.
By Christian Bassabout a year ago in FYI
Calling into the Wind. Content Warning.
I'm in mourning for ever even believing for even one single second thinking that I could ask the wind for anything and he would just bring it right to me.
By Sara Wynnabout a year ago in Poets
Personality Introvert Which Often Underestimated
Why do people underestimate the personality of introverts? Because they are just knowing that introverted people are difficult to socialize with, don’t like interaction with people, and are shy. Actually, the assumption isn’t always right. Introverts are people who like spending time alone or with one or two people rather than meeting with many people. Whereas people shy are tending to be extremely afraid of interaction with other people, they have concern and are uncomfortable when they are interacting with unknown people.
By Mirda Gabout a year ago in FYI
One hero's end is another's beginning
The sun always set early on the people of Cliffhaven. The town's positioning at the base of the cliff was the leading reason, it was never long after midday that the town was thrust into the shadows.
By Liam Stormabout a year ago in Fiction
The Lost Children
He lured them on the bus one day Drove all those kiddies far away Clutching bookbags, in rows seated He took them 'cause he had been cheated
By L.C. Schäferabout a year ago in Poets
Humpty Dumpty Jr.
There was once an actor named Humpty Dumpty. He auditioned for so many movies but could not get hired for an acting part.
By Mariann Carrollabout a year ago in Fiction
Carry The Cross
Ramona Scott is sitting in the living room of her apartment waiting on her best friend Roger to bring her some iced coffee for the morning. “Sure is taking Rog longer than usual to bring my liquid crack” she thought to herself. “Maybe there’s a line at the store, I guess I could give him a-” before Ramona could finish her train of thought there was a knock on the door.
By Joe Pattersonabout a year ago in Fiction
Travel in 100 words
Birds above like kites, Tethered only by their sight, Freedom, soaring high. 🌊 … Shadows in the light. Sun beaming through, cold smoke,
By Caitlin Charltonabout a year ago in Poets
Reading Canada Reads: The Pull of the Stars. Content Warning.
Welcome to Reading Canada Reads! A series of book reviews I am aiming to do as I make my yearly attempt to read everything on the Canada Reads longlist.
By Kelsey Clareyabout a year ago in BookClub
Flying. Runner-Up in Legends Rewritten Challenge.
Wendy's life was all crisp lines and sharp edges. Polished floors. Practiced smiles. Poised postures. Her family lived just across the road from the orphanage, but her life couldn't have been more different from the large rundown building with the straggly children filtering in and out of it.
By Poppy about a year ago in Fiction
My Goal For The Future
Life hasn’t been easy — no it’s been fucken tough! Fight after fight after fight, Internal battles, external battles, covert battles,
By Colleen Millsteed about a year ago in Poets
Dirt and Dregs. Honorable Mention in Legends Rewritten Challenge.
"What the hell are you doing back here, man?" Dirt and glass crunched as the speaker, a slim fellow dressed in a clean, gray three-piece, slowly approached a pile of garbage at the end of the alley. The well-dressed man clicked on a flashlight and swept it across the dismal scene, as a huge, dark dog followed quietly behind.
By Gabriel Huizengaabout a year ago in Fiction
Hungover on the Threshold of Eternity
The next chapter in The Shambella Saga! We again find ourselves eavesdropping on an exchange that happened before the Turning.
By C. Rommial Butlerabout a year ago in Fiction
We, The Resilient
i cradle my hurting neighbors through poetic verse and memes attempt to soothe my own despair by walking the dog sometimes outside feels less scary
By Oneg In The Arcticabout a year ago in Poets
Anita
Anita didn’t die from a heartbreak. She died because she convinced herself that romantic love was all she ever needed. We grew up with her. We watched her cry. We knew her laughter, and, most importantly, we knew that she knew we loved her.
By Ofentse🌸about a year ago in Writers