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Lest We Forget

Matthew Earl·November 11, 2018

Lest We Forget written by: Matt Earl The simplicity of pinning this Red flower to your chest...

Poetry English

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A Flag Beside A Stone

Roger Turner·November 11, 2018

A Flag Beside A Stone written by: roger turner @titansdad Today I put a little flag Down,...

Poetry English

·1 min read

Boots

DC Diamondopolous·April 1, 2018

Boots written by: DC Diamondopolous The same sun-scorched downtown Los Angeles that had seared the Iraq desert....

English Featured Post Literature

·15 mins read

Memorial Day History

Spillwords·May 29, 2017

Memorial Day History Three years after the Civil War ended, on May 5, 1868, the head of...

Article English A day like today Spilled History

·4 mins read

Personality Quiz

Denise·May 7, 2017

Personality Quiz written by: Denise Rivera @dbirdsoprano Soul-searching can be so inconvenient. Gone are the days you...

Poetry English

·1 min read

Dragon Blood

odonko-ba·January 4, 2017

Dragon Blood written by: odonko-ba @odonkoba He sits on the edge of the world unconcerned with the...

Poetry 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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