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Something Beautiful

by Darryl Price, posted 18 hours ago 4343 views22 comments22 favs

It's nice to see you, but not always. The park's hair has gotten quite wet, but it still manages to look beautiful and inviting. Anyway, I'm out on foot, so it doesn't really matter. I've been here before, in…

Heavier Than A Death In The Family

by Chris Okum, posted 40 hours ago 4949 views00 comments00 favs

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The Partial Population of a Very Small Town

by Jeffrey S. Callico, posted 4 days ago 8585 views00 comments00 favs

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The Blue Bird

by Erika Byrne-Ludwig, posted May 07, 2025 115115 views44 comments33 favs

The blue bird tapped at my window and pecked my crumbs. I talked to him as to a small person about the things of life, of flowers, of trees and the sky. Even at times pretending he was erudite, I questioned him about evolution and extinction. He looked at me as if he…

The Case of the Phantom Paperclip

by John Olson, posted Apr 21, 2025 171171 views33 comments33 favs

I was sitting on the steps in the entryway to our apartment building taking off my running shoes when I spotted a paperclip on the floor. I assumed it had fallen from the mail that my wife had just taken from our mailbox. Once my shoes were removed, I went down to pick…

Head in the Clouds

by Carl Santoro, posted Apr 17, 2025 343343 views11 comment11 fav

Damn, the light turned green on me. Wasn't ready.

At Waffle House

by Michael Tusa, posted Apr 15, 2025 190190 views55 comments55 favs

Staring at my $10 All Star Breakfast with extra bacon

Ron Vara speaks out at last.

by stephen hastings-king, posted Apr 09, 2025 216216 views44 comments33 favs

He’s an empty sock

Poof

by Dianne McKnight-Warren, posted Apr 06, 2025 193193 views77 comments66 favs

Yesterday's protest...

Let it Rage Until

by Emily Sparkles, posted Apr 01, 2025 206206 views33 comments22 favs

Let it rage. I shall not suppress you. Let your rage speak to you of the sorrow it hides, until your sadness swallows you whole.

Meeting A Praying Mantis

by Ed Higgins, posted Mar 17, 2025 255255 views22 comments22 favs

A Praying Mantis clover to bright emerald green landed on my sleeve and lingered as I worked in my hay field.

pome sequence from an early spring

by strannikov, posted Mar 15, 2025 260260 views22 comments11 fav

Say say say say say say says our I-I-I-me tunes:

The Toy Store

by Amanda Harris, posted Mar 09, 2025 434434 views88 comments33 favs

Figures are a strip tease.

Six or Eight Legs

by Jennifer Donnell, posted Mar 08, 2025 228228 views33 comments11 fav

I killed it. Didn't even relocate it back to its outdoor home, as I had work to do. This is being human.

MUNDO MUERTE

by Misti Rainwater-Lites, posted Mar 06, 2025 268268 views55 comments33 favs

Meagan rides the subway with perfect lips and deep thoughts, looking moody out the smudged window like an actress in a Sofia Coppola film.

The Secondhand Life of Uncle Ray

by W. Scott Bowlin, posted Mar 04, 2025 269269 views22 comments22 favs

Between chapters, he trained my dog, Buster. He taught him to fetch bottle caps, roll over for no reason, and to play dead whenever someone raised their voice

desire

by Jeffery Klaehn, posted Mar 02, 2025 311311 views66 comments44 favs

Desire, nervousness and your power, in even your slightest look, I find it so addicting, harboring transformative impossibilities.Is this, I wonder, all that can really happen — wishing, dreaming? Consuming, I can't leave or lose it, not knowing, can't stop thinking…



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    I hear you, Chris. It's pretty bleak, but it always was. People still found a way. It's in us, in our book of dreams. There's always hope, but it may be hidden or hiding. If we don't find it, the n...
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    "There will be in the next generation or so a method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears so to speak. Producing a kind of painless concentration camp for ...
  7. I hear you, Chris. It's pretty bleak, but it always was. People still found a way. It's in us, in our book of dreams. There's always hope, but it may be hidden or hiding. If we don't find it, the n...
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