Power Outage
/I wrote this Short Story…
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When had it been?
She had forgotten.
It didn't matter…
By Sugar de Santo
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Stage Echoes
/When the applause ends
The footlights fade
And the curtain falls
Let one solitary …
By Mike Turner
Read MoreOne Hundred Percent
/Budgy learns how to grow…
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…I have been friends since we were born. He lived three doors down. My dad used to say we were thicker than flies; however, no one ever mixed us boys up. He was tall and skinny, with neatly combed black hair; I held onto my baby fat …
By Fay L. Loomis
Read MoreOne Dischanted Evening
/Stories one hears through the years.
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In college, they split by his choice, a regret,
since he stayed alone—self-imposed oubliette—
while back at her campus young…
By Ken Gosse
Read MoreLife Waves Buh-bye
/Death comes in threes. On March 3, 2023, inside Boston’s John P. Bedlow Memorial Hospital, the flatlined trifecta included an atheist, a Muslim, and a…
By CraigE
Read MoreFalling Star
/…am not falling-
Just becoming a falling star,
lighting up the ebony skies-
A jewel glittering in the…
By Shalini Nandkeolyar
Read MoreWhere the Roses...
/…mother and my very step-mother that were fighting in our compound that caused commotion in the air. Before we knew it, neighbors had appeared and started separating them. We, the children, were little and all we could do…
By Lawal Rasheed
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