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Please Come Home

Faiza Sayyad·November 7, 2024

Please Come Home written by: Faiza Sayyad Things are tearing apart As if my heart is trying...

English Poetry

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Confessions of a Castaway

Anagha Agnes·November 6, 2024

Confessions of a Castaway written by: Anagha Agnes For ages I travelled like a castaway, Lost in...

Poetry English

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A Trip Back Home

Cody Knudson·October 28, 2024

A Trip Back Home written by: Cody Knudson - I never believed in ghosts. Growing up near New Orleans...

Literature Featured Post Halloween English 13 Days of Halloween

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My Halloween Apparitions

Kellasandra Ferrara·October 20, 2024

My Halloween Apparitions written by: Kellasandra Ferrara @kellasandra1 what do they see in these front yards something...

English Poetry Halloween

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Progress

Gail Constable·October 15, 2024

Progress written by: Gail Constable Once it would have Been someone’s Home, warm, cozy, Full of the...

English Poetry

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The Floor

Séimí Mac Aindreasa·October 13, 2024

The Floor written by: Séimí Mac Aindreasa - Consider the floor. The floor is an amazing thing...

Literature Featured Post English

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Untidy Home

Shalini Kathuria Narang·September 30, 2024

Untidy Home written by: Shalini Kathuria Narang @shalinikat Blankets on the couch, where members slouch, chocolate stains...

English Poetry

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Commute

W. Glewicz·September 19, 2024

Commute written by: W. Glewicz - I sit on the bus, heading home, fix my skirt...

English Literature

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Lost Waves

Pranab Ghosh·September 14, 2024

Lost Waves written by: Pranab Ghosh @gpranab2012 I I step backwards In time! Time slides faster Slips Waltzes...

English Poetry

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The Way Home

Jenny Middleton·September 10, 2024

The Way Home written by: Jenny Middleton an early frost shows us our heat our own breath...

English Poetry

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Kids at Home

Robyn MacKinnon·September 8, 2024

Kids at Home written by: Robyn MacKinnon @art_rat mom left the kids home good news/bad news kind...

Robyn Finds Poetry Robyn MacKinnon Poetry English

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A Palette of Love and Rain

Qazi·August 31, 2024

A Palette of Love and Rain written by: Qazi @darth_kaneki “I love the rain,” she said, underneath...

English Poetry

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The Woman

Thompson Emate·August 20, 2024

The Woman written by: Thompson Emate @ThompsonEmate The name of every woman is a bell that chimes...

Poetry English

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Mama

Aisha Saidi Kingu·August 19, 2024

Mama written by: Aisha Saidi Kingu @KinguAisha Mama, what could I have done without you? Who could...

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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