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• Sisterhood

  by DancingTrumpet20 about 1 month ago

  I checked my surroundings, everyone was asleep. That’s when I let it hit. How could she LEAVE Me? silent tears poored down …

• A Love Supreme: The Lark Ascending (Part 4)

  by g2 (la pianista irlandesa) 3 months ago

  I perched myself on the second-floor porch’s balcony rail, looking down on the young violinist who was about to play with the…

• Advice From the Local Diner [H B, L&D Challenge]

  by OrangeOreos 3 months ago

  “Ya are what ya make yourself, honey.”

  I was slumped in my usual stool in the diner, sipping my black coffee. Next to me lay…

• Despedida/Departure [The English Translation, By Request]

  by Ana Cristina 7 months ago

  The woman’s plaintive voice rises and falls like a sigh. I turn up the radio.

  There’s no more life
  There’s no more rain

  I…

• Sweet Departure

  by THX 0477 7 months ago

  Cicada hummed in the trees, a soundtrack for a Southern night. Sweet walked down the gravel road with his eyes fixed forward….

• Departure

  by Never Explain 8 months ago

  I was so spent. I could only sleep for about a half hour before I had to wake both us up and move to a new place.

  We couldn’...

• On The Couch

  by Howie Amourscow 10 months ago

  The world begins to rumble from your ass to your teeth and the Hand Of God covers your chest, holds you down, viciously pushe…

• Half Lies and Tacit Inventories

  by THX 0477 10 months ago

  “Where are you going?” These are not the words Dai wanted to hear at this particular moment. Why did she have to be home earl…

• Hey, Stay Tonight

  by THX 0477 11 months ago

  “Gonna’ be tonight,” Terrence said somberly, “Don’t you know I’m flyin’ tonight?“

  Jody shuddered and turned her back, ”*...

• Going

  by Fyora Cartagan about 1 year ago

  You and I,
  Are going far away.
  I don’t know where,
  And it’s your choice how,
  All I know is,
  We’re going now.