Showcase - Week of: 9/25-10/1/21

New Submissions:

• Our Colin - By Chris Platt

• Tidal Pools - By K. L. Shipley

• Cuckoo - By Nayanjyoti Baruah

• My Uhane - By Deepthi Monteiro

• Autumn Sojourn - By Mike Turner

• Poetry In Motion - By Tracey Ross

• Traveling Broke - By Andrew Scott

• That’s No Hoot - By Eva Marie Cagley

• When Today Begins - By Brenda Arledge

• The Ambulance Chaser - By Jack Bristow

• The River in My Dream - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Diaries of a Primary Researcher Part 2 - By Bushra Tughar

• Sometimes You Don't Have To Lie - By Sehloho Piet Rampai

• The Mendless Mindlessness of the COVID Herd - By Ken Gosse

• What Did Your Teacher Learn In School Today - By Judge Burdon

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• That’s No Hoot - By Eva Marie Cagley

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Showcase - Week of: 9/18-24/21

New Submissions:

• Narrating Life In First Person - By Sushant Thapa

• Wandering Around the Truth - By Russell Willis

• Lunch With Paul No. 8. - By Stephen Barile

• Mother's White Lies - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Smile for Me - By Timothy K Giordano

• Little White Lies - By Brenda Arledge

• Forbidden Fruit - By Sloane Angelou

• Uncle Anton - By Anita G. Gorman

• Almost Perfect - By Allan Shawa

• Pretty Lies - By Mike Turner

• Lies - By K. L. Shipley

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Wandering Around the Truth - By Russell Willis

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Showcase - Week of: 9/11-17/21

New Submissions:

• Best Part of Truth Are The Lies - By Judge Burdon

• Stop Lying - She's Not Naive - By Brenda Arledge

• A Call From Anonymous - By Anita G. Gorman

• Determination - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

• I’m Starving For Your Lies - By Becca Hulen

• Whitewashing Brownosers - By Ken Gosse

• Take A New Avatar - By Monalisa Parida

• Nor’easter’s Hands - By Andrew Scott

• The Tea Rooms - By Niall Crowley

• Paws For Thought - By Chris Platt

• A Green Hat - By Shih-Fang Wang

• The News Is Next - By Fred Miller

• Let's Talk - By Andrea Harmathy

• Call - By Michal Mahgerefteh

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Let's Talk - By Andrea Harmathy

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Showcase - Week of: 9/4-10/21

New Submissions:

• A Gift - By Marc Charette

• The One - By Ayesha Asim

• Work Mates - By Chris Platt

• Day-Trippers - By John Tavares

• Sorrowbye - By Vroni Holzmann

• For a Reason - By Anita G. Gorman

• Connect The Dots - By Tracey Ross

• What's Up. Friends - By K. L. Shipley

• Bond of Friendship - By Brenda Arledge

• Lunch With Paul No. 7 - By Stephen Barile

• Those Were the Days - By Shih-Fang Wang

• A Candle To Light You Home - By Casey Bottono

• A letter to my friend - David. - By Sloane Angelou

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• A letter to my friend - David. - By Sloane Angelou

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Showcase - Week of: 8/28-9/3/21

New Submissions:

• Friendship Means So Much To Me - By Brenda Arledge

• A Short Friendly Conversation - By Marc OBrien

• A Friend Indeed - By Timothy K Giordano

• Grabbed By Hades - By Samantha Merz

• Lies, Deceit and Hurt - By Lady Arabella

• Welcome in the Middle - By Ken Gosse

• 'Til Death Do Us Part - By Andrew Scott

• Jonathan's Leg - By Anita G. Gorman

• Your Last Call - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Lady Tallahassee - By K. L. Shipley

• Friendship - By Eva Marie Cagley

• Throws of War - By Tracey Ross

• Transient - By Mike Turner

• A Friend - By Tanja Ajtic

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• 'Til Death Do Us Part - By Andrew Scott

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Showcase - Week of: 8/21-27/21

New Submissions:

• Job - By K. L. Shipley

• Unforgiven - By Becca Hulen

• My Village - By Monalisa Parida

• Her Power - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Lost Lunches - By Anita G. Gorman

• Stubborn Resilience - By Mike Turner

• Thicker Than Water - By Jack Bristow

• He Called Me By Name - By Kathryn Schleich

• Stuff My Grandpa Told Me - By Judge Burdon

• Standing Strong = Strength - By Brenda Arledge

• To Realize We Live In The Past - By Clinton Siegle

• Lunch With Paul No. 6 The Blossom Trail Café - By Stephen Barile

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Thicker Than Water - By Jack Bristow

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Showcase - Week of: 8/14-20/21

New Submissions:

• Sage With Umbrella Watches The Collapse Of The Modern World - By Doug Tanoury

• A Sort of Memoir (after Louise Glück) - By Susan Maxwell Campbell

• What if we rise together in love rather than falling? - By Moin Uddin

• A Patriot's Widow Tells Her Tale - By Dipesh Kumar Bhagat

• The Thing About the Dandelions - By Christopher Clauss

• Trust In A Higher Calling - By Brenda Arledge

• Hearts Crying Tonight - By Andrew Scott

• Precipitant Persistence - By Ken Gosse

• Modern Morrigan - By Michele Mekel

• Good and Evil - By Wasaay Qureshi

• Resilient Hope - By Serlina Rose

• Resilience - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Bathe of Dusk - By Monalisa Parida

• Love - By Shashi Sharma

• Left to You - By C.L.Norby

• The Vigil - By K. L. Shipley

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• A Sort of Memoir (after Louise Glück) - By Susan Maxwell Campbell
  

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Showcase - Week of: 8/7-8/13/21

New Submissions:

• Deep Breaths - By Tracey Ross

• An Encounter - By Maisie Russel

• In Your Love - By Monalisa Parida

• Cincinnatus - By Anita G. Gorman

• War and Peace - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Motherless Daughter - By Zoë Ricard

• Standing Strong - By Brenda Arledge

• Forgetting To Cry - By George Anderson

• Lunch with Paul, No. 5 - By Stephen Barile

• A Hanging Like Any Other - By K. L. Shipley

• What fruits it beared of those seeds? - By Moin Uddin

• Down Thru The Winds Of Time - By Sharon Cunningham

• Like Nikki, I should have married my mother - By Sloane Angelou

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Motherless Daughter - By Zoë Ricard

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Showcase - Week of: 7/31-8/6/21

New Submissions:

• The Meaning of Modern Madness - By Ana Sylvia Rose

• Esther Jones: The Real Betty Boop - By Danny Fantom

• Southern Sweet Mint Tea - By Nancy Lou Henderson

• The Prisoner | Soul—Bound - By Katrenia Busch

• A Short Roll on a Grassy Knoll - By Ken Gosse

• Afterlife Ceremony - By Brenda Arledge

• Saintly Intervention -By Monalisa Parida

• The Father of History - By K. L. Shipley

• Two Peas in a Pod - By Ngoc Nguyen

• You Go First - By Ruth Ann Ferreira

• Cause and Effect - By Mike Turner

• Stolen Property - By Dee Allen.

• Azrael - By Saniya Kolangde

• The Attic - By P.Muralidharan

• Create - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Black Voices - By Amy Losi

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Stolen Property - By Dee Allen.

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Showcase - Week of: 7/24-30/21

New Submissions:

• You're Fired - By Tracey Ross

• Out Of Shackles - By Jamzy de Lord

• What's Up. Liberty - By K. L. Shipley

• The Rhythm of Change - By Amy Losi

• An Unacceptable Truth - By C.L.Norby

• A Walk by the Bow River - By Kelly Kaur

• Wooly Bully - By Judge Santiago Burdon

• The American Way - By Brenda Arledge

• A Forest without Leaves - By John Maurer

• Backyard Neighbors - By Shih-Fang Wang

• What America Means to Me - By Mike Turner

• Ruminations in a Side Room - By Peter Jonathan

• Black Moon Promise - By Judge Santiago Burdon

• “Rose,” A Double Triolet Poem - By Ngoc Nguyen

• Memorable Celebrations - Liberty - By Serlina Rose

• Lunch with Paul No.4 Chef Paul's Cafe - By Stephen Barile

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• A Walk by the Bow River - By Kelly Kaur

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Showcase - Week of: 7/17-23/21

New Submissions:

• Kneeling with an Upright Heart - By Ken Gosse

• Cuckoo In The Nest - By Kate Meyer-Currey

• Carried a Razor Everyday - By K. L. Shipley

• My Incredible India - By Monalisa Parida

• Independence Day - By Brenda Arledge

• The Game-changer - By P.Muralidharan

• The Hole - By Susan Maxwell Campbell

• Wonder Full of Might- By Ngoc Nguyen

• The Hand You’re Dealt - By C.L.Norby

• Eliza's Mother - By Anita G. Gorman

• O Fungus O Punisher - By Aurora

• One and Entire - By Utsuk Upreti

• 1920 - By DC Diamondopolous

• Liberty - By Shih-Fang Wang

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• The Hand You’re Dealt - By C.L.Norby

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Showcase - Week of: 7/10-16/21

New Submissions:

• The Play - By Mike Turner

• Brilliant Glow - By Tracey Ross

• A Door Kept Open - By C.L.Norby

• The Pillow - By Ranjith Sivaraman

• The Future - By Kevin McDermott

• Isolation - By Michal Mahgerefteh

• Detachment - By Shih-Fang Wang

• To My Child, Stillborn - By Amy Losi

• Livin' with the Animals - By K. L. Shipley

• Melancholy and Joy - By Ngoc Nguyen

• The Birmingham Preacher - By Pete Black

• Finding An Empty Envelope - By C.L.Norby

• Peaceful Existence Lost - By Brenda Arledge

• A Message from the Earth - By C. Holloway Ashwanden

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• The Future - By Kevin McDermott

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Showcase - Week of: 7/3-9/21

New Submissions:

• Lost In Pensive Mood Past Noontime - By Ngoc Nguyen

• Lunch with Paul No 2 Flightline Cafe - By Stephen Barile

• Happiness And Contentment - By Marvelio Oxford

• One Father's Day Like This - By Chris Platt

• Twenty Years Later - By Monalisa Parida

• He’ll Nevermore Return - By Ken Gosse

• Northwest Passage - By Paula Bonnell

• Emotional River - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Shared Harmonic - By Marc Charette

• Pieces of My Being - By Divita Barfa

• Losing Sanity - By Brenda Arledge

• Join Humanity - By Tracey Ross

• The Stabbing - By K. L. Shipley

• This Bus - By Fred Miller

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Happiness And Contentment - By Marvelio Oxford

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Showcase - Week of: 6/26-7/2/21

New Submissions:

• Alabama - By Nick Young

• Il Fattorino - By Chris Platt

• Flopcrates - By Bungler Bill

• Richard III - By K. L. Shipley

• Carry Humanity - By Tracey Ross

• Small Courages - By Russell Willis

• Her Courage - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Give Me Strength - By Daisy Forrest

• Get Forked - By Judge Santiago Burdon

• You Gave Me Courage - By Brenda Arledge

• Against Stasis - By Susan Maxwell Campbell

• Don't Let Yourself Fall Victim - By Moin Uddin

• Portraits of a Young Artist in Istanbul - By Gene Parola

• Water Tales and Bedtime Stories - By Linda Murphy Marshall

• “In Love and In God We Trust,” A Psalm and Anthem for LGBTQ+ Rights - By Ngoc Nguyen

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Portraits of a Young Artist in Istanbul - By Gene Parola

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Showcase - Week of: 6/19-25/21

New Submissions:

• Addressing Racism in Myself Before Talking to My Kids - By Kathleen Kempert

• To Write Where The Words Take You - By Nate McCall

• Elegiac Memories of Dear Mother - By Ngoc Nguyen

• The Tour Of Unexplored Fear - By Moin Uddin

• Courageous Women - By Anita G. Gorman

• The Courage Of A Rose - By Marc OBrien

• Controlled Demolition - By Tracey Ross

• Stick to Driving a Truck - By Pete Black

• Doggone Deviltry - By Ken Gosse

• The Mary White - By Gillie Bowen

• Facing Fear - By Brenda Arledge

• 1929 - By DC Diamondopolous

• Jeanne D' Arc - By K L. Shipley

• The Exit - By Shih-Fang Wang

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Controlled Demolition - By Tracey Ross

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Showcase - Week of: 6/12-18/21

New Submissions:

• The O.G. - By Chris Platt

• Muffled - By Tracey Ross

• Fully Realized - By Mike Turner

• The Ventilator - By Jack Bristow

• The Plunge - By Sushant Thapa

• Too Young - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Dear Students - By Jamie Wendt

• Introspection - By James Geehring

• Time and Man - By Monalisa Parida

• Recipe For A Virus - By Denise Martin

• All the Lonely People - By K. L. Shipley

• Hearing the Truth - By Brenda Arledge

• Mental Masturbation - By Ngoc Nguyen

• Miseries Of Unequal Sides - By Moin Uddin

• The Mysterious Limousine - By Anita G. Gorman

• Every Sea Has Its Shore - By Chitra Gopalakrishnan

• Along Came Rose, a Maid So Fragile and Young - By Ngoc Nguyen

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• All the Lonely People - By K. L. Shipley

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Showcase - Week of: 6/5-11/21

New Submissions:

• Musings on Poetic Rhythm, Meter, and Measure - By Ngoc Nguyen

• My Brain Is Being Drained By The Plumber - By Florence Mauchant

• Lunch with Paul #3 Santa Fe Basque Hotel - By Stephen Barile

• The Madness of George King - By David Patton

• Heidi and Happiness - By Anita G. Gorman

• The Last Man in the Water - By Pete Black

• Last Dream of Night - By Monalisa Parida

• Tea is Turning Cold - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Contrast - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

• This I have Overheard - By Bungler Bill

• Goethe's Little Novel - By K. L. Shipley

• Wings Of Your Desire - By Moin Uddin

• Tomorrow, Realized - By Mike Turner

• Moon Is A She - By Tanya Sachdeva

• My Uncle Eric - By Ken Gosse

• Emptiness - By Moin Uddin

• Sky Diving - By Lynn White

• Seero - By John Baldwin

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Sky Diving - By Lynn White

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Showcase - Week of: 5/29-6/4/21

New Submissions:

• Dear Beamish Boy (a Loving Spiral) - By Ken Gosse

• The World Around - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

• She was from Chernobyl - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Dancing in the Rain - By Manisha Sultaniya

• Man, Nature and Energy - By Muskan Antil

• Solitary Thinker - By Monalisa Parida

• The Light Beyond - By K. L. Shipley

• Wake Up Alarm - By Ranjit Kulkarni

• They Will Return - By Dee Allen.

• Black Gold - By Mike Turner

• Co-op - By Cristina Collazo

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Wake Up Alarm - By Ranjit Kulkarni

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Showcase - Week of: 5/22-28/21

New Submissions:

• A Wish - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Primordial - By K. L. Shipley

• Disclosed - By Ellen Bennett

• Common Law - By Tracey Ross

• Life Goes On - By Sushant Thapa

• When Pigs Fly - By Mark Delaware

• My Little Green Truck - By Jill Clark

• The Coach Party - By Richard Prime

• A Quality Airing Out - By Marc OBrien

• I Love My Odisha - By Monalisa Parida

• Petri Dish Beneath a Sepia Sun - By Ken Gosse

• Unfathomable Devastation - By Brenda Arledge

• Renewing a Writer's License - By Anita G. Gorman

• My Image, My Surrounding - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Unfathomable Devastation - By Brenda Arledge

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Showcase - Week of: 5/15-21/21

New Submissions:

• Ma'am; That Unexpected Word - By Brenda Arledge

• Grandma and the Threesome - By Anita G. Gorman

• The Redemption of Benny Gantz - By K. L. Shipley

• What The Neighbors Knew - By Tom Kastanotis

• Mirror of Conflict - By Nancy Lou Henderson

• The Lady Behind the Bridge - By Pete Black

• Growing Old - By Judge Santiago Burdon

• Lying About the Truth - By Pam Munter

• Bamboos Sing - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Mystery of Life - By Monalisa Parida

• Cropped - By Laura Anella Johnson

• Repentance - By Nathan Perrin

• I’m Only 10 - By Kshipra Narain

• The Dog Trial - By Chris Platt

• Power - By Sushant Thapa

• "The Vest" - Fred Miller

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• What The Neighbors Knew - By Tom Kastanotis

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