Stubborn Resilience
/…and worries weigh me down
I shan’t move, will stand this ground
Though will pass dark, moonless night
Scared, exhausted, full of…
By Mike Turner
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Lost Lunches
/Eustacia's boss makes her job intolerable. When she quits, she finds out who her friends are.
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…a physical blow, Andrew Amundsen's harsh words pummeled Eustacia Fleming and made her feel sick. She had been the office manager at Amundsen Insurance for ten years. Loyal, trustworthy, friendly, competent: those were words that Andrew had used to describe Eustacia on her last…
By Anita G. Gorman
Read MoreStanding Strong = Strength
/…a poem that depicts how no one can determine the outcome of life.
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…calls the final wave,
life’s decision is unmade,
no turning…
By Brenda Arledge
Read MoreTo Realize We Live In The Past
/Latest speed of Earth
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…years into a pass change to Cylons.
Eternity is watching me.
Silence, silently I watch and wonder in awe…
By Clinton Siegle
Read MoreThicker Than Water
/…had been waiting outside the gate for a long, unsettling time. I had a lot of thinking to do out there in the oppressive, midmorning sun. I looked to the left and the right. I saw nothing but the large guard tower. There was a strange sound overhead in the powerlines, the sound of static electricity. There was a fly, one pesky little bugger, who kept buzzing around my face. "Shoo," I said, trying to scare it away. But the former…
By Jack Bristow
Read MoreJob
/Hast thou considered my servant, Job.
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…of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them. And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreResilience
/…you never announced your arrival
And I didn’t even realize your existence
Like buoyancy, you prevented me from sinking
Lifted me up from below dark…
By Shih-Fang Wang
Read MoreModern Morrigan
/In light of recent and ongoing misogyny, this piece is a call to the resilience of women.
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We arrived
when you
weren’t…
By Michele Mekel
Read MoreThe Vigil
/Lettie always seemed to be suffering from some permanent but unnamed illness.
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…was also the only one of them to marry. But Lesta didn’t miss out on having children. She really helped raise my father, his brothers and sister, and later – me and my cousins. She was sort of an assistant mom and grandma…
By K. L. Shipley
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