Showcase - Week of: 11/27-12/3/21

New Submissions:

• The Druids’ Temple of Derbyshire - By Valeriya Salt

• Graveyard Shift at Robsham Hall - By Pete Black

• The Fresh Quality of Love - By Brenda Arledge

• Fanatics at the Mound - By John (Jr.) Cravens

• Oh! My Dear Face - By Ananta Kumar Singh

• Spotting Tule Elks - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Opéra Candélabre - By Stephen Barile

• Always Bennie - By Anita G. Gorman

• A Fresh Cut - By Timothy K Giordano

• Shadow People - By David Woods

• Healing Beads - By Andrew Scott

• The Spirit Waits - By Satabdi Saha

• Aeter Datus - By K. L. Shipley

• Fresh Start - By Becca Hulen

• Driving Home - By C.L. Norby

• Withdrawal - By Gyanu B K

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Shadow People - By David Woods

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Showcase - Week of: 11/20-26/21

New Submissions:

• Guardian - By John Baldwin

• Fresh Blue - By Linda Imbler

• Fresh Breeze - By Mike Turner

• Fresh Anew - By Gail Constable

• Awakening - By Sloane Angelou

• What's Eating You - By Ken Gosse

• Hard To Watch - By Andrew Scott

• Start Fresh - By Brenda Arledge

• The Mary White - By Gillie Bowen

• A Fresh Day - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Star’s Delight - By James Geehring

• Sometimes a Little Salt - By K. L. Shipley

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Guardian - By John Baldwin

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Showcase - Week of: 11/13-19/21

New Submissions:

• At the Beach When I Was Young - By Lois Perch Villemaire

• Huntington Beach 1983 - By Jim Landwehr

• Santa Fe (Or, Whales) - By Tayler Bunge

• Ocean's Trance - By Brenda Arledge

• Unwanted Visitors - By Sheena Billett

• I Do, What I Want - By C.L. Norby

• Point Nemo - By Shih-Fang Wang

• An Empty Glove - By Ken Gosse

• Ocean Winds - By Mike Turner

• The Main Event - By Chris Platt

• Ocean - By K. L. Shipley

• Anand - By Grey kal

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• At the Beach When I Was Young - By Lois Perch Villemaire

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Showcase - Week of: 11/6-12/21

New Submissions:

• Sea Storm - By Mike Turner

• Ocean - By Gail Constable

• Transpose - By Brenda Arledge

• The Ocean - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Ocean Breeze - By Andrew Scott

• Disability Retreat - By Tracey Ross

• If I Be A Child Of God - By Sloane Angelou

• Adam and Eve in Paradise - By K. L. Shipley

• Get Me Out Of Here Blues - By Don Edwards

• Wake Me Up When I'm Famous - By Judge Santiago Burdon

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Get Me Out Of Here Blues - By Don Edwards

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Showcase - Week of: 10/30-11/5/21

New Submissions:

• When the General Arrives - By Karen Pierce Gonzalez

• World War None - By Ann Christine Tabaka

• Dancing with Darkness - By K. L. Shipley

• The Writings On The Wall - By C.L. Norby

• Fight This War First - By Shih-Fang Wang

• The Price of Peace - By Denise D'Souza

• Still the Bombs Drop - By Marc Charette

• Out Of Reach - By James Geehring

• The Lookout - By Helen Anderson

• The War Within - By Tim Costello

• A Thin Line - By Brenda Arledge

• Memorial Day - By Russell Willis

• Last Halloween - By Chris Platt

• Final Count - By Linda Imbler

• Stronghold - By Tracey Ross

• Sakura - By Dan Brook

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• The Lookout - By Helen Anderson

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Showcase - Week of: 10/23-29/21

New Submissions:

• Stop Being At War With Yourself - By Brenda Arledge

• Two mothers, Two heads - By Sloane Angelou

• Before You Declare War - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Momma's Brave Defense - By Marc OBrien

• In Memoriam - By Sharon Cunningham

• There Is Another Way - By Mike Turner

• Commitment Issues - By Rob Plunkett

• A Sourdough Sonnet - By Ken Gosse

• Le Quartier Latin - By Stephen Barile

• Father, Stranger - By Karol Nielsen

• Consolations - By Sushant Thapa

• Freedom Wish - By Russell Purvis

• Viral Warfare - By Gail Constable

• Walnuts Knocks - By Calico Girl

• Mice Enough - By K. L. Shipley

• Halloween - By Tracey Ross

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• In Memoriam - By Sharon Cunningham

Showcase - Week of: 10/16-22/21

New Submissions:

• The Full Moon Kindles the Bipolar Mind - By Ngoc Nguyen

• Marshmallows and Lies - By Christopher Clauss

• Memories Keep You Afloat... - By Becca Hulen

• Temporary Annoyance - By Marcelo Medone

• The Rusty Old Can - By Sharon Cunningham

• Saturday Morning Coffee - By Andrew Scott

• Fleeting Summer - By Yogen Guragain

• Buried Treasure - By Brenda Arledge

• Unforgettable - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Saving the President - By Pete Black

• For Better or Worse - By Chris Platt

• Once upon a Time - By K. L. Shipley

• Nightlight - By James Geehring

• The Centurions - By Ken Gosse

• The Pecan Tree - By Dee Allen.

• Remember - By Russell Willis

• 1945 - By Anita G. Gorman

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Temporary Annoyance - By Marcelo Medone

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Showcase - Week of: 10/9-15/21

New Submissions:

• Nostalgia - By Mike Turner

• Territoriality - By Kathy Miller

• A Warm Autumn - By Luisa Reyes

• The Duckling - By Shih-Fang Wang

• The Best Is Yet To Be - By Jean Ende

• On the Night Watch - By K. L. Shipley

• A Bunch of Flowers - By Bruce McRae

• Through the Door - By Norbert Kovacs

• My Muse’s Amusement - By Ken Gosse

• Making the Sunshine - By Sushant Thapa

• The Pea Island Lifesavers - By Pete Black

• Lunch With Paul No. 9 - By Stephen Barile

• The Haunting of Piedras Blancas - By DC Diamondopolous

• A Faded Memory Comes Back To Life - By Brenda Arledge

• Life, Love and Gay Inhibitions In The Noughties - By Ashley Mangtani

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Territoriality - By Kathy Miller

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Showcase - Week of: 10/2-8/21

New Submissions:

• “Queen of Wands; The Shadow Integration” - By Natzari’el

• All that is Wet and Glistening - By K. L. Shipley

• Under The Moonlight - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Going To The Mattresses - By Jack Bristow

• The Fall Of Winter - By Eva Marie Cagley

• Poets Die (V2) - By Michael Lee Johnson

• A rant on the CCP - By Ashley Mangtani

• Perpetual Rebirth - By Amber Danson

• Elspeth Crusoe - By Anita G. Gorman

• Sunshine Kisses - By Brenda Arledge

• The Moon It Fell - By Russell Willis

• The End Times - By Sarah Henry

• An Irish Legend - By Chris Platt

• Jade Horizon - By Dee Allen.

• We Could Be - By Slyvia Rose

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Perpetual Rebirth - By Amber Danson

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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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