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Ghosts on The Water

Roger Turner·May 26, 2019

Ghosts on The Water written by: roger turner @titansdad Captains courageous Out hunting for whale Ghosts on...

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The Kraken And Captain Cutch

Bruce Rowe·November 12, 2018

The Kraken and Captain Cutch written by: Bruce Rowe Cradled in long rotting arms, the schooner violently...

English Literature

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Invictus

Spillwords·July 17, 2016

Invictus A Poem by William Ernest Henley Out of the night that covers me, Black as the...

English Literary Greats

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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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It’s You

Hopeless?

To Infinity And Preston

The Dory Between Us

Ecos de Salitre

A Three Millenium Tour

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Ghosts on The Water

The Kraken And Captain Cutch

Invictus

Ghost of a Christmas Past

Cieder Muld and the Boy

This is Our Christmas

The Leaves of Diablo

The Spy Hiding in the Bougainvillea

The Great Christmas Caper

Spotlight On Writers – Dmitriy Belyanin

The Light We Keep

The White Robe of Noelle

St. Nicholas Goes to His Eternal Reward

A Cardboard Christmas

The Innkeeper’s Wife