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Life In Times of Corona

Rana Preet GillApril 5, 2020

Life In Times of Corona written by: Rana Preet Gill @DrRanaPreetGill The air is glum. It reeks of a strange kind of solitude. An imposed loneliness...

ArticleEnglish7 min read

Wooing The Sun

Mona LisaFebruary 17, 2020

Wooing The Sun written by: Mona Lisa She is not sure yet, If she is a poet or a magician, if she writes her own verses, or words roam her pages b...

EnglishPoetry0 min read

Major in the Land of Giants

Asad MianJanuary 12, 2020

Major in the Land of Giants A Travelogue (of sorts) written by: Asad Mian @amian74 My trip to the high and mighty mountains of Pakistan, the secon...

ArticleEnglish11 min read

Dreams

Elaine MarieDecember 30, 2019

Dreams written by: Elaine Marie @ElaineMarieCar1 My feet feel the grain of the sand underneath and my hair smells of salts from the wind. My eye has...

EnglishPoetry2 min read

A Cuckoo Clock Christmas

Lee DunnDecember 23, 2019

A Cuckoo Clock Christmas written by: Lee Dunn @66human I brought you a present 'Twas an old cuckoo clock From a second-hand store in the city ...

ChristmasEnglishPoetry1 min read

Chasing Cars

Mileva AnastasiadouDecember 21, 2019

Chasing Cars written by: Mileva Anastasiadou @happymil_ It was the night before Christmas when I met him at the local pub. I went there alone to dr...

ChristmasEnglishLiterature13 min read

My Hidden Desires

Hemu AggarwalSeptember 28, 2019

My Hidden Desires written by: Hemu Aggarwal @hemuaggarwal15 My drained efforts to dig out my bones, and see deep scars healed as yet. My fizzled eff...

EnglishPoetry0 min read

Explanations

Sonali MajumdarSeptember 24, 2019

Explanations written by: Sonali Majumdar Explanations are rivers Of our carefully crafted thoughts Of mindful set of words Flowing by vales and gar...

EnglishPoetry1 min read

Ohio, Iowa, and Sometimes Idaho

Anita G. GormanSeptember 21, 2019

Ohio, Iowa, and Sometimes Idaho written by: Anita G. Gorman It was a large dining room in a modern hotel in downtown Madrid, the night before we were ...

EnglishLiterature2 min read

Life’s Trace

Ken Allan DronsfieldSeptember 13, 2019

Life's Trace written by: Ken Allan Dronsfield @KenKadfield Someone whispered my name! The tone a low, but gentle voice. It said, "search out your p...

EnglishPoetry1 min read

Tigger

Phyllis SouzaSeptember 10, 2019

Tigger written by: Phyllis Souza Tigger, an alley cat, lapped milk, hunted mice and leaped through open car windows to nap. One day he picked the wr...

EnglishLiterature0 min read

Landscapes Inside Me

Sallon LepchaAugust 6, 2019

Landscapes Inside Me written by: Sallon lepcha Travelling has been my muse lately Eyes open, seeing emotions Struggling on every turn Yet surrender...

EnglishPoetry0 min read

Cloudiness

Eliza SegietJuly 24, 2019

Cloudiness written by: Eliza Segiet translated by: Artur Komoter I hide in the silence of the uncertainty of tomorrow, I am glad, that today ...

EnglishInternationalPoetryPolish1 min read

Tiny Buildings

Alexander DrakeJuly 16, 2019

Tiny Buildings written by: Alexander Drake @drakefable What’s the difference between a statue and a building? I’ve seen lots of buildings and th...

EnglishLiterature8 min read

“Lock down, lock down. We are now on lock down.” The receptionist’s voice came over the school intercom over the incessant buzzing of the alarm bells located in every hall of every phase of the building. I thanked my lucky stars I wasn’t in my regular classroom with my fourth period of thirty-one freshmen. I was teaching my last class of the day in the computer lab of phase five, one of the more isolated wings of the large oddly-shaped school where I’d been teaching for years. There were only seven students in class that day, it being a Friday afternoon ...