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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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The hats have attached the application form, Madame

Michelle Moloney King·December 30, 2020

The hats have attached the application form, Madame written by: Michelle Moloney King @MoloneyKing Dumping protests only...

Poetry English

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She Walked Away

Henry Bladon·November 30, 2020

She Walked Away written by: Henry Bladon @henrybladon They met up she said: we’re done, he pleaded she rolled...

English Poetry

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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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You Tricked Me La La Land

The hats have attached the application form, Madame

She Walked Away

Hymn Of The Eternal Feast

To Grandmother’s House

Breakfast on the Beach

The Visit

Naughty Or Nice

The Christmas Figure is Unmoved

Spotlight On Writers – Darryl B

A Little Book About Trees – by Tim Burr

The Waiting

Never Know

Grandchild

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