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• Untitled (Poem) Please read!

  by lost_at_sea 10 months ago

  It was once impermeable.
  Though thin, the creamy, porcelain layer was strong, stiff.
  But now, its strength fails, the layer f…

• Run

  by KimuraCarter about 1 year ago

  Neither of us can remember why we started running. The first thing we remember is running out of the yard, pushing open the w…

• Shark (2)

  by Music-Hearted about 1 year ago

  My walk home was uneventful, though the adrenaline still pumped madly in my veins. A lone streetlamp loomed nearby, flickerin…

• Shark

  by Music-Hearted about 1 year ago

  I slipped behind a wall, leaning against it for support and gasping for breath. He’d been a shark- one of those people that d…

• Diary of the Wizened Environmentalist

  by blueyedwonder about 1 year ago

  Nobody remembers the Earth from yesterday. All we know is that everything spiraled downhill and crashed almost 5 hundred year…

• Van Mantra: 450 Years Later

  by Richard Peck about 1 year ago

  They heavy metalic weapons pinched Meric’s cold skin beneath his thick concealing overcoat as he strode briskly down the Side…

• Van Mantra Repeated

  by Richard Peck about 1 year ago

  The old man slid the dial, and it was clear it was Van Mantra.

  “…to our side of the fight. Oh, and keep a bright light han…

• And suddenly the prophecies continued

  by Algai 'd' Aman about 1 year ago

  I was carried away in the Spirit to a place upon a lofty mountain.

  I saw and look! The heavens fled away like a scroll. I h…

• Things Taken

  by shallowdotcom about 1 year ago

  “Will the youth ever find their future?” Father asked no one in particular. It was a code. He was talking about me again. I w…