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Inside The Oak Embrace

Cris Charboneau Steele·May 6, 2022

Inside The Oak Embrace written by: Cris Charboneau Steele I try to imagine the First Natives on...

Poetry English

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A Southerner Living in Vancouver

Karen Southall Watts·April 26, 2022

A Southerner Living in Vancouver written by: Karen Southall Watts @askkaren There’s only a trace of drawl...

English Poetry

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Ode to a New Black Ballpoint Pen

Eric Robert Nolan·November 3, 2021

Ode to a New Black Ballpoint Pen written by: Eric Robert Nolan Black liquid silk, bleed out...

Poetry English

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Old Man

Spillwords·May 2, 2021

Old Man a poem by Alexander Pushkin I’m not that lover, filled with passion, – That youth,...

Poetry English Literary Greats

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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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Inside The Oak Embrace

A Southerner Living in Vancouver

Ode to a New Black Ballpoint Pen

Old Man

To Grandmother’s House

Bonfire of Resolve

Mercury

A Little Book About Trees – by Tim Burr

Naughty Or Nice

Barney and His Angel

Uwierz w Deszcz

The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth

Hardening of the Heart

SHIMLA

Bonfire of Resolve

Box or an Urn