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Slow Is Living Long

Alias Mimmie·June 24, 2019

Slow Is Living Long written by: Alias Mimmie @Snehashreemand1 The timid world rests through failing glory, we...

Poetry English

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Forgotten

Jack Wolfe Frost·June 22, 2019

Forgotten written by: Jack Wolfe Frost @JackWolfeWriter Fog, It rules my mind, erasing my thought, Slowing removing...

English Poetry

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Another Day

A.M. Torres·June 22, 2019

Another Day written by: A.M. Torres @sonic1170 Another day comes my brain in a fog my soul...

Poetry English

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Belong

Jessalyn Johnson·June 21, 2019

Belong written by: Jessalyn Johnson @jessalyn451 The ability to sleep in a cabin is a powerful strength....

English Literature

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Interlude

Tinashe Muza·June 20, 2019

Interlude written by: Tinashe Muza With the AKG phones plugged in, I soak heavily into Hozier’s Wasteland...

English Poetry

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Nothing Will Die

Spillwords·June 9, 2019

Nothing Will Die a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson When will the stream be aweary of flowing...

English Literary Greats Poetry

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M, part of a poetry collection written by Tony Ortiz at Spillwords.com

M

Tony Ortiz·May 29, 2019

M written by: Tony Ortiz A world where the wind does not blow. There is light, but...

Poetry English

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Daybreak

Gosha Kulisiewicz·May 19, 2019

Poetry Polish English International

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Total Evil

Eliza Segiet·May 16, 2019

Literature Polish English International

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Turf Monster

Raphfael Wormge·May 7, 2019

Turf Monster written by: Raphfael Wormge Reaching, Grabbing Swiping at feet; To feed a hunger That needs...

English Poetry

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Flow

Kenneth Vincent Walker·May 4, 2019

Flow written by: Kenneth Vincent Walker Poetry pays me back In ways that many Fail to fathom....

English Poetry

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Distance

David Dephy·May 3, 2019

Distance written by: David Dephy I see the lilac shadow of a tree and it seems to...

English Poetry

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Between Going and Staying The Day Wavers

Spillwords·April 28, 2019

Between Going and Staying The Day Wavers a poem by Octavio Paz Between going and staying the...

English Literary Greats Poetry

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Candlelight

Barbara Deraoui·April 25, 2019

Candlelight written by: Barbara Deraoui @brmaxwell Even in darkness, there will be a lit candle to show 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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