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Carnival Charity

Sterling Warner·July 9, 2025

Carnival Charity written by: Sterling Warner “Oh to live on Sugar Mountain With the barkers and the...

English Poetry

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Mindy

Human Observation Post·May 21, 2025

Mindy written by: Human Observation Post Desire conflicting reason Taste my mind of your heavenly nectar Eating...

Poetry English

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Ecdysis

Bruce Morton·May 1, 2025

Ecdysis written by: Bruce Morton You would think she would be Tempted to do her hang ups...

Poetry English

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The Jesus & Mary Chain

Andy Houstoun·April 20, 2025

The Jesus & Mary Chain written by: Andy Houstoun - The sky is heavy with cloud, and warm rain falls...

Literature Featured Post English

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Ashtrays

Roger Turner·March 17, 2025

Ashtrays written by: Roger Turner The night was over The band was done Time to hit the...

Poetry English

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Surviving the Winter’s Wrath

Sajida Haddad·January 29, 2025

Surviving the Winter’s Wrath written by: Sajida Haddad @HaddadSajida It’s 10 degrees out but I got a...

Poetry English

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Rocky Road

Doug Bartlett·October 16, 2024

Rocky Road written by: Doug Bartlett - What an adventure I have had! I have been on this road...

English Literature

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Ophidia

Courtney Glover·August 27, 2024

Ophidia written by: Courtney Glover I was there, in the very beginning, a witness, When life first...

English Poetry

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Steaming Coffee

Brittany Benko·August 1, 2024

Steaming Coffee written by: Brittany Benko As I hold my writer’s cup, I fill it with steaming...

Poetry English

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First Class Love

Milt Mankoff·July 28, 2024

First Class Love written by: Milt Mankoff - As an infrequent flyer who has never benefited from a corporate...

English Featured Post Literature

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Insights

Jaya Abraham·July 12, 2024

Insights written by: Jaya Abraham In the twenties Love sweeps up Soul and everything In a tornado...

English Poetry

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Adult Adultery Adulteration

Dilip Mohapatra·July 6, 2024

Adult Adultery Adulteration written by: Dilip Mohapatra @dilipmo All of us without any exception emerge from our cocoon...

Winter Embers

Rob Clark·June 24, 2024

Winter Embers written by: Rob Clark @HangryPoet197 You see, it’s not all about the warm squeeze of...

English Poetry

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The Devil’s Hold

Ash Douglas·June 23, 2024

The Devil’s Hold written by: Ash Douglas @Written_In_Ash I tempted the beast lured it from its dark...

Poetry English

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Olga Cunha is a Russian writer and poet based in Portugal. Having walked through her own darkness, she knows that even there, light can be found — and made to shine brighter. This belief lies at the heart of her novels, short stories, and poetry. She writes about people who face depression, fear, loss, loneliness, and difficult choices, yet keep searching for meaning, freedom, and hope. Her books The Architect and Good Offer: What the Hell have been published in Russian and English and are available on Amazon. The Architect, a magical realism novel, won the LitRes New Horizons 2024 competition. Olga also writes and performs her poetry in both languages. You can find her poetry readings on Instagram at @writer_olgacunha.

The Barn Ghost by Vivek Subramanian

The first thing people noticed about the barn was that it never fully went dark. Even after midnight, when the pine woods swallowed the last of the county road and the fields turned black as flooded earth, something pale held itself around the structure—a residue, not quite light, as though the dark itself was reluctant to touch it. The tobacco barn stood half a mile behind Pearl Whitaker’s farmhouse in Halifax County, North Carolina. Around it: dead fields, willow trees that had stopped trying, kudzu climbing the wood...

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