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Sometimes You Don't Have To Lie
/…makes you famous,
Upright and high integrity person,
But when the truth is revealed,
Lies will lower your…
By Sehloho Piet Rampai
Read MoreMother's White Lies
/…mother disliked many foods
Meat was too sinewy
Nuts were too hard
Desserts too…
By Shih-Fang Wang
Read MoreAlmost Perfect
/…was a bright Monday morning, regardless of the fact that bright was hardly the right word to describe the dark event that the country woke up to. Prominent lawyer, Philip Enmebaragesi was found dead in the infant hours of the…
By Allan Shawa
Read MoreWandering Around the Truth
/…lie cannot be undone
Hanging around our necks for eternity
Likewise, truth attaches to us
Whether uttered by us or about…
By Russell Willis
Read MoreLies
/…good comes of it. It’s a lot of work. New lies have to agree with old lies or the truth will out, and everyone will know you’re a liar. You have to make sure your lies don’t lie to each other. I’m too lazy spend all that energy defending what was never true. Figuring out what’s true is hard enough without adding lies to the…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MorePretty Lies
/Lyric for an mid- to up-tempo soul/blues song
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Verse 1: Tell me you love me
Tell me you care
Say you won’t leave…
By Mike Turner
Read MoreLittle White Lies
/…someone speaks bits and pieces of honesty instead of telling you the whole…
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Untruths,
those little white lies
people don’t think…
By Brenda Arledge
Read MoreUncle Anton
/My mother never told me about her half-brother and the scandal surrounding his life.
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…hangs on the wall behind the piano, the large photograph of my mother’s family taken in 1904. My mother, the baby, sits on my grandmother’s lap. My grandfather, Adolf Johansson, holds a toddler, an uncle I never met. Six children occupy this large formal portrait, along with their parents. Eleven would be the final…
By Anita G. Gorman
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