Stolen Property
/…European settlers
Or their American descendants.
They thought the sound of it
Was pure gibberish…
By Dee Allen.
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A Walk by the Bow River
/The irony of liberty
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…staggers out of the passenger’s seat of my 2-door gold mini-Renault. Ramesh painfully clambers out from the back. “Ok,” I cheerfully make a declaration. “Let’s go for a walk. Phew. 30 degrees Celsius.” I wonder if my forced gusto can disguise Rajkumari’s news of her terminal cancer diagnosis from this…
By Kelly Kaur
Read MoreThe Hand You’re Dealt
/…finished! You know that right? Doesn’t matter how many times you go all in on a bluff, your luck is starting to look like a dry well in a desert ghost town,” said Isaiah, while he glanced at the two and eight in his hand, still debating over whether or not he wanted to place a…
By C.L.Norby
Read MoreThe Future
/…sky arranges itself.
Clouds gather like starlings
And the heart clenches.
The cat seeks out a warm…
By Kevin McDermott
Read MoreHappiness And Contentment
/What makes people dissatisfied with life? Why do you think even the rich are never satisfied…
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…people dissatisfied with life? Why do you think even the rich are never satisfied with what they have? Read the story to find out how futile it is to change one’s outward circumstances to make…
By Marvelio Oxford
Read MorePortraits of a Young Artist in Istanbul
/In nations and societies undergoing religious and generational changes, the courage of the youth may be carrying the most of the societal burden.
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…square paving stones lay in successive arcs around the steps to Taksim Park. Fanning across this broad space, they shone white in the warm…
By Gene Parola
Read MoreControlled Demolition
/Remove self-defeat and find your flow...
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…you feel that you know, will affect the magic that you naturally grow.
You can choose to be your own best friend, or sabotage your success, like a foe.
Blindly walking through each day, you can’t complain, when you stub your…
By Tracey Ross
Read MoreAll the Lonely People
/You can't always get what you want.
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…do they all come from? That’s the refrain from Paul McCartney’s song: Eleanor Rigby. Lyrics, melody, and string arrangement, combine to make it one of the most interesting songs of the twentieth century. Most people think of it as a well-crafted pop song. I think it’s more. The churning throb of the beat evokes…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreWake Up Alarm
/A mother and her son hide their emotions on the morning after he moves out to his college hostel
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…he howled from under the blanket. There was no response. He pulled the blanket doubly over his face so that the sound of the alarm doesn’t disturb him. It kept…
By Ranjit Kulkarni
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