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Life’s Trace

Ken Allan Dronsfield·September 13, 2019

Life’s Trace written by: Ken Allan Dronsfield @KenKadfield Someone whispered my name! The tone a low, but...

Poetry English

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Tenure

Ken Allan Dronsfield·August 11, 2019

Tenure written by: Ken Allan Dronsfield @KenKadfield Perhaps we are great Thunderbirds sowing the seeds of epic...

English Featured Post Poetry

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SILENT TORTURE

Aida·February 7, 2019

SILENT TORTURE written by: Aida Deafening silence echoes through the land, raped by catastrophic disturbances. Vibrating from...

Poetry English

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Fresh Air

Kate Blake·December 3, 2018

Fresh Air written by: kate blake Nature shares her boundless beauty Skies of many vivid hues Mountains...

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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Interview Q&A With Jim Bartlett

Spotlight On Writers – Darryl B

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Ghost of a Christmas Past

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Life’s Trace

Tenure

SILENT TORTURE

Fresh Air

The Mirror Did Not Come as Glass

Broken Halo Blues

Interview Q&A With Jim Bartlett

Cieder Muld and the Boy

The Leaves of Diablo

Creatures of Habit

Ghost of a Christmas Past

Christmas Hymn

Sounds of the Season

Christmas Baking

The Great Christmas Eve Bakery Heist