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On Easter Day

Spillwords·April 4, 2021

On Easter Day a poem by Oscar Wilde The silver trumpets rang across the Dome: The people...

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Tetelestai!

Charlie Bottle·April 3, 2021

Tetelestai! written by: Charlie Bottle @CharlieBottle The hand that stretched out to heal, that wrote in the...

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My Soul is Tired

Masooma Ali·March 29, 2021

My Soul is Tired written by: Masooma Ali My soul is tired Tired of this hollow man...

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The Lamp

Charlie Bottle·January 26, 2021

The Lamp written by: Charlie Bottle @CharlieBottle I, a wick in an empty lamp, await the oil...

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When We Lose Someone

Laura Hughes·November 25, 2020

When We Lose Someone written by: Laura Hughes @SweetPea_1977 When we lose someone we truly love, we...

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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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On Easter Day

Tetelestai!

My Soul is Tired

The Lamp

When We Lose Someone

Up In The Sky

The Great Christmas Caper

The Morning Star

The White Robe of Noelle

Ghost of a Christmas Past

The Gift of Snowflakes

Santa’s Dead!

I Don’t Want a Pony

Christmas Chocolate

Who Cares? It’s Christmas Day

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