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• Things Were Right

  by Brettio73 about 19 hours ago

  The woman took a long, satisfying drag on the cigarette balanced between her fingertips. Contemplatively staring at the burni…

• The Silence Is My Only Friend{Literary/Grunt Challenge}

  by Mad As A Hatter 1 day ago

  I sit cross-legged on my bed, my Trig homework laid neatly across my boring brown bedspread. My pencil flies across the paper…

• An Endless Road

  by NightMaiden 2 days ago

  The road was narrow.

  But in the forest, the pine trees shuddered overhead, speaking in a rustling language of whispers and s…

• A Nod

  by Blusparrow 6 days ago

  I shake my head so my bangs would go in my face.

  “Don’t do that. I want to see your beautiful eyes.” He reaches and pulls my…

• Never?

  by Blusparrow 8 days ago

  I plop onto my bed and open up my notebook. Writing is my only way to let it all out without having to say anything. Poem aft…

• A Person Like Him

  by Blusparrow 8 days ago

  “Grace, could you at least stop walking and hear me out?”

  I hesitate because what could he have to say to me. After all he i…

• Stranded (Use Your Senses Challenge)

  by Fantasy 28 days ago

  The dry sand stretched out as far as I could see. There was so much of it, and nothing else. I could almost smell it. My eyes…

• Needle in the Hay

  by Nouvelle Bardot about 1 month ago

  We’re projected at seventy miles an hour down the interstate by forces we can barely imagine. He looks over from his rigid dr…

• Hopeful and Anxious in Space

  by Mistress Elsha Hawk about 1 month ago

  I don’t remember how I spent the next day. I paced around from one lab to the next without direction.

  Everyone seemed to get…

• Quiet Morning Discovery

  by Mistress Elsha Hawk about 1 month ago

  They all started with a little to drink. Soon some had reached their limit and sang off-key to satellite radio while attempti…