Inner Child
/...slipping by I yearn to be
with my inner child.
She never asked too much except for
a few things that were her...
By Muskan Antil
Read MoreMending A Broken Heart
/...it in him this early autumn
to turn in his two-week notice
and file court papers to end
his ten-year marriage with...
By Andy Cooper
Read MoreThe Ceaseless
/...can’t sell cow’s milk, then there’s nothing much he can do. Because he is paralysed from waist down, his son tends the cows and sells milk at the bazaar for him. Sweet treats are made from...
By Mehreen Ahmed
Read MoreThe Call Of The Domestics
/A little tale about a..
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Suzanna Medevitch lived at a big house in the snow-slammed city of Fairbanks, Alaska. She was a filthy rich, mean old bag, age...
Read MoreCarefully Taught
/Unlike teachers, school friends…
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…spring of 1941, we moved from Detroit to Colon, Michigan, the Magic Capital of the World. Surveyors used a dictionary and chose the first word they came upon to name the town: colon, a punctuation mark…
By Fay L. Loomis
Read MoreSerena's Holiday Reunion
/A fictional tale of a catastrophic…
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Everything was going perfect on Christmas morning with the pies almost done baking in the oven. The smell was heavenly,…
By Traci L. Ford
Read MoreLeave Well Enough Alone
/Life on the streets
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…at the ground while I walked around a vacant lot in the Inner City without purpose, I discovered under leaves and grass clippings an incredible amount of cigarette butts, beer cans, broken bottles and…
By Judge Santiago Burdon
Read MoreWatching My Mother...
/A young girl is watching…
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…surely help, she says, eyes beaming
Two parts cinnamon, one of cloves, another cardamon
Now you’ll be the cinnamon…
By DJ Elton
Read MoreSingular Strength
/In the tapestry of my life…
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…navigating the intricacies of life without the presence of two parents, the letter ‘S’ not only symbolizes the essence of ‘single’ but also…
By Ariana Cheatham
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