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• Small-Town Miracles

  by OrangeOreos about 1 month ago

  “Mommy! Mommy, wook! It’th thnowing!” shouted the little boy, as he ran around the yard, trying to catch the small white flak…

• Katra's Love

  by Mistress Elsha Hawk 2 months ago

  Katra dug among the ashes until she found a sizable scale shard, razor sharp on it’s edge. Tears ran down her face as she fel…

• Family In a Jar

  by Eckhouse 2 months ago

  Mollie’s only request in the years before she died was that her ashes be scattered somewhere on the South Carolina coast. Her…

• Ashes

  by Never Explain 4 months ago

  I looked at The Wooden Man, looking at me obliviously.

  “Did you see that?” I asked.

  “See what?” He asked.

  “The crow bash…

• The Cookie Jar

  by thebetweenspace 7 months ago

  Little Johnny has a ravenous desire for chocolate chip cookies. No obstacle will thwart his quest. The five year old slowly c…

• Ashes, no More Paradise

  by Blusparrow 6 months ago

  It was a cloudy day as I approached my home. Or what was left of it anyway. Tears streaming down my face, I accessed the dama…

• The taste of salt.

  by Ana Cristina 7 months ago

  My earliest memory brings with it the briny smell of sea, the feel of sand stuck between my toes, the sound of waves pummelin…

• From The Dust You Shall Return

  by insomniac 8 months ago

  Maria lived the fire, she breathed the smoke, and she felt the flame. Her life depended on it. The effect it had on her amaze…