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Is, Are — In Pain

Alice Mohd·November 26, 2025

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Is, Are — in pain

written by: Alice Mohd

Sun in my head
Running wild through my brain cells
Heart starting to melt
Warmth becomes a fire

Selfish words —
Tangled in tense and tone
Unbearable, yet unavoidable
Some truths scream,
Even when whispered

In the end,
the one who listened
Is, are — in pain

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Alice Mohd

A writer, an author and editor. Loves to make poetry musicalization videos and voice overs in her spare time. Has two solo books and several anthologies in Malaysia and Indonesia. Loves to write haiku.

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After a long career tinkering in telecommunications, Jim Bartlett switched to tinkering with writing fiction, both requiring a stretch of the imagination. In the course of putting his fingers to the keyboard, he's been fortunate to have quite a number of his stories featured both in print and online in several wonderful publications, including a story selected for "The Best of Fiction on the Web, 1996 – 2017" anthology. While mentally he strolls along a warm California beach with his wife and golden retriever (shhh, she doesn't know she's a dog), physically they reside on a special little island in the Pacific Northwest.

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