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Sand Script

Doug Donnan·February 28, 2019

Sand Script written by: Doug Donnan The message was clear when the letters were new Etched in...

English Poetry

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Coquina Clams

Sunmy Brown·February 21, 2019

Coquina Clams written by: Sunmy Brown The salty seawater, rhythmically rushing toward the vacant shoreline. Receding back...

Poetry English

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Distant Shores

Any1mark·November 2, 2018

Distant Shores written by: Any1mark @any1mark66 Do you hear me calling? Waves seem desperate for contact My...

English Poetry

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Seagulls

Daniel S Liuzzi·September 12, 2017

Seagulls written by: Daniel S. Liuzzi @DanielSLiuzzi Can you see the seagulls glide? Their calls crying out...

Poetry English

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How The Sea Goes To Sleep

Kara Jackman·September 22, 2016

How the Sea Goes to Sleep written by: Kara Jackman @KaraJ1979 The eye is drawn to the...

English

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Amidst Your Shore

Eric Roberts·April 22, 2016

Amidst your shore written by: Eric Roberts @the_averagepoet “Amidst the tropical sand, Pearled in colored, He laid...

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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