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Fright Night Out On The Town

Ivanka Fear·October 27, 2019

Fright Night Out On The Town written by: Ivanka Fear Dressed to kill, makeup perfected, clock strikes...

Poetry Halloween English

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Haiking Along The Scores

Tim Gardiner·August 3, 2019

Haiking Along The Scores written by: Tim Gardiner @timgardiner3 The Ravine imagination down the Ravine up Cart...

Poetry English

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Dinner With Your Demons

Godfrey Holy·March 26, 2019

Dinner With Your Demons written by: Godfrey Holy My skeleton dances to jingles and dirges Other rhymes...

English Featured Post Poetry

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Dance Macabre

Leta Hawk·October 26, 2018

Dance Macabre written by: Leta Hawk @LetaHawk Skeletons practice Extreme nudism as they Dance in their bare...

Poetry Halloween English

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Skeletons In My Closet

Fallen Engel·October 13, 2016

Skeletons In My Closet written by: Fallen Engel @BlackEngel3 The butterfly falls with such elegance, his mass...

English

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Ol’ Neddy’s Whiskey

Daniel S Liuzzi·July 8, 2016

Ol’ Neddy’s Whiskey written by: Daniel S. Liuzzi The leaves danced among the old headstones. Not many...

Literature English Featured Post

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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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