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• Pills

  by Stovohobo 6 days ago

• I Command You: Ode to the Creation of Life

  by THX 0477 4 months ago

  “Live. I tell you to live, confound you! You are…my soul! Do not take from me that last shred of hope, that struggling em…

• Where God Can't Hear

  by THX 0477 6 months ago

  His task completed and his day in the sun over, Gordo retreated to his sanctum, his masterpiece. The cool metal of the recess…

• A Nasty Chore

  by R.A. Porter 6 months ago

  Gordo planted the spade in the soft dirt and rested his foot on it. Lightly gripping the top of the handle, he slumped slight…

• Rapt audience

  by Chgowiz 6 months ago

  I jerked awake to The Voice, that horrid Voice that over the days? weeks? dominated my existence.

  “Go-o-d can’t hear you!” t…

• Norman's routine

  by Rusty Tanton 6 months ago

• The Drama of Internal Angst

  by Batak Beatrix about 1 year ago

  She glared at the phone, willing it to ring. There were a million things she could be doing, should be doing, but instead s…

• Desperation Haikus

  by THX 0477 about 1 year ago

  Bleary eyed and tired
  Defeated, beaten by life
  But I won’t give up

  Alone in a crowd
  Jostled, shoved this way and that
  But I …

• When Happiness Walks Out

  by [pens&feathers] about 1 year ago

  Faith touches too few, and Sadness sits by too many.

  Blank expression, there’s a man in the corner who’s met Desperation on …

• Desperation in the Key of E Minor

  by Batak Beatrix about 1 year ago

  The fan swirled lazily over the small café, circulating the humid Louisiana air that hung like a shroud in the late afternoon…