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A Child Wedding

Prakash NagarajanMarch 28, 2020

A Child Wedding written by: Prakash Nagarajan The ceremony was on, overseen by a priest and village hanger-ons, of a marriage fixed and soon to be...

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The Dilemma of an African Child

Eduardo De BoscoMarch 28, 2020

The Dilemma of an African Child written by: Eduardo de Bosco - You want to know me ? I am kissed by poverty at birth Our golden sun produces gol...

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Broken Poet

Edwin Olu BestmanMarch 27, 2020

Broken Poet written by: Edwin Olu Bestman Silence is golden Mind is traveling and rolling Heart secures with pains and trouble While society wraps ...

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She and The Beast

Sunita PaulMarch 18, 2020

She and The Beast written by: Sunita Paul Seema was doing her homework but was not at all attentive at her studies. She was just looking at the cloc...

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The Giant

Ger WhiteMarch 13, 2020

The Giant written by: Ger White It was just a hill field to the neighbours But we knew it was the Bed of the Giant And when he was heavily breathing...

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A Smile From You?

LadyLilyMarch 9, 2020

A Smile From You? written by: LadyLily @AFairymary My world set apart, lonely by neglect. No flowering meadows, just quivers each morn. Each morn...

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Doomed Bridge

PallaviFebruary 1, 2020

Doomed Bridge written by: Pallavi We crossed that bridge as five but only mother and I survived. Your father and brothers will be back, she wiped he...

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My Child

LadyLilyJanuary 29, 2020

My Child written by: LadyLily @AFairymary I am the narrator streaming with words… A mother, less… Absent of your being, a silent cocoon deafens m...

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Wasn’t Her Fault

LadyLilyDecember 25, 2019

Wasn't Her Fault written by: LadyLily @AFairymary ‘You need lockin’ up!’ Grandma would shout. Scruffed by the neck, open palmed clout. ‘Sip up th...

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Courses

Katy SantiffDecember 18, 2019

Courses written by: Katy Santiff @KatySantiff As an island child, I would pull myself up on the crib and look through glass-locked darkness for...

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Santa’s Watchin…

Hema RaviDecember 17, 2019

Santa's Watchin... written by: Hema Ravi 'Santa's watchin'!' says Mum to thirty-month old toddler 'You must share!' The spirit of Christmas ingra...

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Rio, The River

Tamsen GraceDecember 11, 2019

Rio, The River written by: Tamsen Grace You screamed for the first nine months of your life, inconsolably I traversed miles with you, back an...

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Night Witches

Robyn MacKinnonNovember 24, 2019

Night Witches written by: Robyn MacKinnon @art_rat Young child looks up Magical and witchy friends Sisters of Mercy ...

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Goodbye Child, prose by Ntuthuko Brian Ncobeni at Spillwords.com

Goobye Child

Ntuthuko Brian NcobeniNovember 14, 2019

Goodbye Child written by: Ntuthuko Brian Ncobeni Since my arrival, I’ve silently been here and there preparing my departure. The most difficult...

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“Lock down, lock down. We are now on lock down.” The receptionist’s voice came over the school intercom over the incessant buzzing of the alarm bells located in every hall of every phase of the building. I thanked my lucky stars I wasn’t in my regular classroom with my fourth period of thirty-one freshmen. I was teaching my last class of the day in the computer lab of phase five, one of the more isolated wings of the large oddly-shaped school where I’d been teaching for years. There were only seven students in class that day, it being a Friday afternoon ...