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• Affliction At Heart

  by Dreamt of Turquoise 25 days ago

  In the midst of the unbearable, piercing shrieks, she sensed things just couldn’t be any worse and any more bewildering. Well…

• The ballgame

  by Wyatt Aapr about 1 month ago

  Night had settled in. The 50 lights, ten on each pole, were lighting up the ball field like daylight. The scoreboard lights i…

• Memories of the Bay

  by Maleghast 2 months ago

  As he looked out over the bay, the lights dancing along the cables of the Bay Bridge he could not help but think of her.

  It …

• The music of the night

  by Poozzab 2 months ago

  So I did. I readily pranced about, playing the song, singing the song. It feels right. Where do I know this…

  Darkness, ove…

• Strange Normalities: Dan's POV: Humble Abode

  by g2 (la pianista irlandesa) 2 months ago

  First, I looked up, mouth agape. The room, no, the whole house seemed to be like the hill. Or was the hill, for that matt…

• When It Rains

  by Laine the Grey 3 months ago

  The squalor melts into sewers. The city is warm with forgiveness

• Hello Teeth

  by Phil Sporlan 4 months ago

  Very Dark, too dark. Is this it? I’m I going to die?
  “Did anyone see you come here?”

  Did I make a mistake? Did he not know w…

• Questions After THE Kiss

  by Phil Sporlan 4 months ago

  Ernest knows his life has changed for the better, no more rooftops for him. A simple kiss has opened his world to so much hap…

• A seemingly mundane morning (Realization Challenge, and kinda a true story)

  by Bartimaeus 5 months ago

  I got up around 10:30 the next morning. Oh my God… We must’ve talked for hours last night…
  I rubbed my eyes and looked …

• Slumber Party

  by Valley Fey/Pinprick 5 months ago

  I set the glass of water down on my nightstand and sit on the bed. The yellow quilt is soft under my hand, its patterns swirl…