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Brighter Light Will Find You

Stephen Ferrett·November 23, 2024

Brighter Light Will Find You written by: Stephen Ferrett Look up to the sky, through sunlight, wind,...

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Sonrisa

Enoble Asuquo·August 14, 2024

Sonrisa written by: Enoble Asuquo @Obongeno2 Smile, a huge energy, it’s innate and free, it works wonders...

Poetry English

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Winter Solstice

Christine Piatek·February 1, 2024

Winter Solstice written by: Christine Piatek Oh, dark night of winter, propelling us to hunker down, take...

Poetry English

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Love and Lightning

Edward L. Canavan·February 5, 2023

Love and Lightning written by: Edward L. Canavan @Ed_Leo71 as easily come as gone a sign that...

Poetry English

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I was born and raised in Yorkshire, England. At fifteen I left school without the skills or maturity to appreciate the wider world. At nineteen I packed a bag and wandered through Europe and North Africa, learning from the road. At twenty‑five I earned the qualifications for university, eventually becoming a high school teacher and later an education manager. Now I live with my amazing wife on an island north of Seattle. After retiring and with encouragement from Spillwords and the Clever Park Writers Group, I traded reports for storytelling. And that's where the fiction began...

Cast Off by Niall Crowley

The two computer screens tighten their grip. Tom pivots between them, tracking one while he works on the other. Careful discipline from early morning to close of business. Number crunching, he would have termed it before. Now it’s data management and verification, his task to model and tabulate clients’ financial situations and options. Bookkeeping, he would admit to, in more candid moments. He’s tethered firmly to the task, though, and has been since he started here, nearly two years now. Bound in the rigour the work requires, as if life itself depends on it. Top floor, dormer window ...

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