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Want of a Teddy Bear

Fay L. Loomis·August 20, 2023

Want of a Teddy Bear written by: Fay L. Loomis For more than thirty years, my Teddy...

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To Persephone

Sayani Mukherjee·July 25, 2023

To Persephone written by: Sayani Mukherjee Seashores are magical Strokes of omens play and leap With the...

Poetry English

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Buddha & Mary Jane

Scott C. Kaestner·July 20, 2023

Buddha & Mary Jane written by: Scott C. Kaestner a monk meditating in a monastery of his...

English Poetry

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Saturday in The Park

G. Lynn Brown·July 4, 2023

Saturday in The Park written by: G. Lynn Brown @GLBrown_Writer We met by chance. Two in a...

Hiraeth

Mahua Sen·June 30, 2023

Hiraeth written by: Mahua Sen @Mahua2023 There’s a river that flows through my mind. I’ve named her...

Poetry English

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Nightingale

Magdalena Podobińska·May 9, 2023

Nightingale written by: Magdalena Podobińska @Madzia33 sometimes I wish I could pretend then the pain would end and...

Poetry English

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Checkmate

Chaturvedi Divi·May 3, 2023

Checkmate written by: Chaturvedi Divi @diviauthor “Are you afraid of ghosts?” Suseela asked. “No,” Manohar said. “Then,...

English Literature

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A New Theology: Divine Incompetence

Louis Gallo·April 23, 2023

A New Theology Divine Incompetence written by: Louis Gallo I find it difficult, if not impossible, to...

Article English Literature

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Every Day She Walks

Scott Pieschel·March 28, 2023

Every Day She Walks written by: Scott Pieschel Each morning she walks among them, a photograph in...

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You, poetry by Sushant Thapa at Spillwords.com

You

Sushant Thapa·March 23, 2023

You written by: Sushant Thapa Coming closer To the moonlight I saw your starry eyes. I wait...

English Poetry

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Lost

Sally Armstrong·March 15, 2023

Lost written by: Sally Armstrong I tried to shape words to make them work in a poem...

English Poetry

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The Box

K.T. Clark·February 27, 2023

The Box written by: K.T. Clark It had all begun with an email. “Did you know your...

Literature English

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The Lighthouse

Sharon Frame Gay·February 14, 2023

The Lighthouse written by: Sharon Frame Gay @sharonframegay Maine, 1922 There are those who find the song...

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The Eternal Search

Naga Vydyanathan·February 6, 2023

The Eternal Search written by: Naga Vydyanathan Whoosh….something grazed past the clown’s tomato-nose at supersonic speed. He...

English Literature

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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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