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• The Friendship of the Bottle

  by John Perkins 14 days ago

  I fall limp into the tattered clutches of the lime green couch I picked up at the Salvation Army. A spring digs into my right…

• Eros and Psyche 4 - the Loneliness

  by canadianwriter about 1 month ago

  The days passed endlessly for Psyche. Life could have been blissful – free to roam the godly, bejeweled palace, with all the …

• After the Music (This is the Life)

  by Saint Chuck 2 months ago

  We stumbled out of the crowded bar, violently neon drinks sloshing out of half empty plastic cups, making us laugh even harde…

• a hermit in my own head

  by Okelay 2 months ago

  Won’t you come in?
  I could use the company

  All my life I’ve been alone
  inside my head I find the best company

  All my life I…

• Like you like an arsonist

  by Okelay 2 months ago

  When I called you my perfect match, I wasn’t kidding.
  you light me up. you make me light everyone else up.

  I did as you as…

• the dream: part 42 it could all be okay

  by Gerr Bear :] 3 months ago

  a few weeks passed by with carter not there, and i was lonely as ever, just went on with my summer “job”, and life.
  it would…

• Message in the bottle, Sting (Music challenge)

  by Quizmaster 3 months ago

  “Love can mend your life, but love can break your heart”
  I just never payed attention to such words, but now, left to count…

• Human Encounter

  by nanoalpha 4 months ago

  -Are you lonely?
  Just a little bit.
  -Then come on, join me.
  I would rather not.
  -Why not?
  I would prefer to be lonely.
  -That …

• The Elysian Fields [Use Your Senses Challenge]

  by NightMaiden 4 months ago

  She was surrounded by a whirlwind of colors; an infinite vortex of rainbow that spread as far as the eye could see.

  There w…

• The Place

  by charlesj 5 months ago

  There is a place I go
  where only I will be
  It’s peace and quiet is comforting
  ‘cause no one’s there but me

  Many times a day …