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Now And Then

Lynn White·May 8, 2018

Now And Then written by: Lynn White Now the clouds are pressing down making everything grey, everything...

Poetry English

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Currents

Taru Of Hearts·September 1, 2017

Currents written by: Taru Of Hearts @taruofhearts Go Go Go with the flow But whose flow are...

Poetry English

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Sliproad By The Interstate

Gavin Haycock·July 11, 2017

Sliproad by the interstate written by: Gavin Haycock @poetry_pieces I took a turn into foothills of granite...

English Poetry

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Travel (Direction Sign)

Nidhi Gupta·May 22, 2017

Travel (Direction Sign) written by: Nidhi Gupta @nidhi13cs Light path going to heaven cinnamon sprinkled around Pathway...

Poetry English

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Something About Currents

Ian Michael·November 21, 2016

Something About Currents written by: Ian Michael @IF_TheGuy If you never change Directions then you’ll always Be...

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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