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When I Lost The Trail

G. Rod Hamilton·October 21, 2024

When I Lost The Trail written by: G. Rod Hamilton @redwrangler I fell for a sound While...

Poetry Halloween English

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Wind

Mark Alden·June 2, 2024

Wind written by: Mark Alden @MarkAAlden The wind is a feral animal tonight, moaning, circling, lashing out...

Poetry English

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Crescendo

Alan David Gould·May 15, 2024

Crescendo written by: Alan David Gould A 60-cycle hum vibrates the motionless air Sprinklers blanket the green...

Poetry English

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You Tricked Me La La Land

Zoé Mahfouz·May 3, 2024

You Tricked Me La La Land written by: Zoé Mahfouz Stop coughing on me I’m switching to...

Poetry English

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Debbie vs Jack Russell

Jan Niebrzydowski·April 20, 2024

Debbie vs Jack Russell written by: Jan Niebrzydowski In this corner, is Debbie, goes by (Debbie the...

Literature English

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Feeble, Furious Fenris

Ryan J Morgan·June 28, 2023

Feeble, Furious Fenris written by: Ryan J Morgan The winter wolf, Withered, wild, wasted, Has torn through...

Poetry English

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Sweet Child

Jim Bellamy·April 28, 2023

SWEET CHILD written by: Jim Bellamy reap now, sweet child; my rooms are spare, whose scarce horizons...

Poetry English

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Oh Puppy, My Puppy

Anne Gruner·April 11, 2023

Oh Puppy, My Puppy written by: Anne Gruner Oh puppy, my puppy who barks and cries and...

English Poetry

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The Invisible Man

M. R. Defibaugh·February 24, 2023

The Invisible Man written by: M. R. Defibaugh and Christina Chin @Christina_haiku the dog barks up woodpecker...

Poetry English

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Arborglyph

Nazim ZarSinner·April 25, 2022

Arborglyph written by: Nazim ZarSinner On our honeymoon, three years past We rented a room, outside the...

English Poetry

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Sonnet 116: ‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds…’

Spillwords·July 11, 2021

Sonnet 116: ‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds…’ a poem by William Shakespeare Let...

Literary Greats Poetry English

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The Bark of The Black Dog

Patrick Doran·August 10, 2020

The Bark of The Black Dog written by: Patrick Doran Let the black dog bark it may...

English Poetry

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Dog Barks

Camille·May 12, 2020

Dog Barks written by: Camille @gowerrichelle75 Dog barks. Velvet night. Jasmine breeze. Moon suspended, ever watchful. Casting...

Poetry English

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The Dog She Was

JPK·November 12, 2019

The Dog She Was written by: JPK She’s not the dog she was ten years ago, When...

Poetry English

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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.

Reaper by Sharon Frame Gay

As an orphaned son of an orphan, I always see the glass as half empty. I picture the water murky and lukewarm, a waterline etched below the rim. Maybe with an ash or two floating at the bottom, because that’s what I do for a living. I deal with ashes. The remains of the deceased. No matter how those who pass away see their glass, meager or full, they eventually end up in a satchel carried on my shoulder.
My business card reads “Morton Stark Transport.” I’m called upon to disperse the ashes of the dearly departed and honor their final wishes. People hire me to escort the remains throughout the world ...

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