Tucked Away - By Madysin-Lynn
I’ve tucked away, so no one can ever see The little glimpse of hope that I used to say was me. So far away with every lock and chain, And...
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Oct 8, 20231 min read
Crashing - By Madysin-Lynn
Just like the ocean so dark and so blue, Waves of sadness at depths that no one ever knew. Floating around just trying to find out, Where...
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Sep 3, 20234 min read
Lumley Street - By Andre Thomas
I held my hand up to Fatman who stood on McGraw next to the Alryashi Store. Fatman’s real name was Benjamin Carter. Though, no one dared...
Conrad Gardner
Aug 19, 20232 min read
The Present - By Conrad Gardner
Collette had been through a bad breakup. Not only did she find Nicola, her no-longer-girlfriend in bed with some guy who looked like...
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Aug 16, 20232 min read
Sheets - By Conrad Gardner
In case you haven’t already met her, Collette possesses some neat-freak tendencies. She doesn’t have OCD or anything clinical, but she...
Conrad Gardner
Aug 16, 20232 min read
The Ducks - By Conrad Gardner
I used to run along this quiet road a while back. It curved uphill for a few miles and came to a beautiful crest which gave me a view of...
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Aug 8, 20231 min read
Roll On - By John Grey
I wake at one a.m. like a fishbone in a throat. Dim night light. Ticking of a watch. And the moon like a straw bell tolling silently. A...
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Aug 8, 20231 min read
The Noise From Within, Below - By John Grey
As the years go by, the dead grow louder. My ancestors echo through my bones, my bloodstream. The graves of soldiers cry out at those who...
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Aug 8, 20232 min read
Carpets - By Conrad Gardner
I never lived in a house with carpets until I started renting my first flat, the one above the chippie. It felt like an okay compromise,...
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Aug 7, 202324 min read
A Hungry Dance - By T R Healy
“This dance has no name. It is a hungry dance.” - Wallace Stevens, “Dance of the Macabre Mice” Prologue Am I alive? Rogers wondered as...
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Aug 7, 20231 min read
A Self Born Mission - By H L Dowless
I’m on a self born mission, Like a bat out of hell, In an apathetic mental condition, Riding a midnight carousel. I don’t know exactly...
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Aug 7, 20231 min read
Babe Without You Life Is So Blue - By H L Dowless
Tears are rolling down my face, I simply don’t know what to do, My mind grasps not time nor space, Since I have no choice but to live...
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Aug 5, 20231 min read
I don't want to die, I want to go home - By Gale Acuff
I don't want to die, I want to go home to Heaven, that is, to see my Maker, if there is one but I don't want to go if I have to die to...
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Aug 5, 20231 min read
I don't want to die-ever, I mean - I - By Gale Acuff
I don't want to die--ever, I mean--I might live to be 100 but I still don't want to croak, living's all that I've known, life at least...
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Aug 4, 20231 min read
Censure This - By Colin James
Since my dog bite I've been having ethereal dreams. Nothing about Fido's kiss keeps me fellowish so I stay awake in-between naps. The...
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Jul 23, 20232 min read
THE RED POET, CHAPTER 7 - BY K A GILBERTSON
One foggy morning, just as dawn was disappearing, two riders rode up to Fiodr Semionovich’s farm. One of them was Tverskov. His face...
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Jul 22, 20234 min read
THE RED POET, CHAPTER 6 - BY K A GILBERTSON
"Black raven, black raven, Why do you fly above me? Black raven, oh black raven, Leave me alone. I am not your prey." Sitting on the long...
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Jul 22, 20236 min read
THE RED POET, CHAPTER 5 - BY K A GILBERTSON
The smell of freshly baked corn galettes wafted up the stairs from where he was sitting. When the General left his room to get some...
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Jul 22, 20236 min read
THE RED POET, CHAPTER 4 - BY K A GILBERTSON
The intoxicating scent of roses wafted up to his window. He remembered that spring in Moscow when he had not yet embraced the cause....
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Jul 22, 20239 min read
THE RED POET, CHAPTER 3 - BY K A GILBERTSON
"Black raven, black raven, Why do you fly above me? Black raven, oh black raven, Leave me alone. I am not your prey." Soothing,...
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