pines Archives - Spillwords

pines

Nature! A Mystical Creative

LadyLily·October 6, 2023

Nature! A Mystical Creative written by: LadyLily @AFairymary Nature! A Mystical creative, Light pinpoints each petal On...

English Poetry

·1 min read

Quiet of The Snow

John Drudge·January 28, 2023

Quiet of The Snow written by: John Drudge These are the simple things That happen On the...

English Poetry

·1 min read

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 ...

Features

Borrowed Shoes

The War Within The Battle

Callisto

Interviews

Spotlight On Writers – Vaishnavi Pusapati

Spotlight On Writers – Dmitriy Belyanin

Spotlight On Writers – Miroslava Panayotova

Borrowed Shoes

The House the Ocean Left Behind

Turning Forty

The Inward Journey

Dinner On the Ponderosa

An Invitation

A Beach Scene in Australia

pines

Nature! A Mystical Creative

Quiet of The Snow

Santa’s Dead!

The War Within The Battle

The Mouse on the Hearth

The Yule Siege

Borrowed Shoes

Such Soulful Wailings

The Cities of the Dead

The Last Day Slips Into the Next

Life’s a Riot, Somehow

Flip the Card

Time Falls Silent

Breezing Winter