The Shock Of...
/…crossing the building site on his latest property development when his mobile phone rang. He picked up and listened as maintenance worker called Devon, from an apartment block on Salford Quays…
By Chris Platt
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Overburdened
/…weeps for her rising burden
Population explosion continues
Up to eight billion people for certain
Overcrowding breeds alarming…
By Shih-Fang Wang
Read MoreDarkness, Disaster, Dream
/A horrible war had…
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… the rumbling; we hid in a cave.
DESPERATION
The longer we were there; it felt like…
By Debby Hackbarth
Read MoreBeneath The Ashen Sky
/…sun was a ghost, a pale circle smothered by the constant haze of ash that clung to the air. Cities stood like tombstones, hollowed shells of their former selves, where silence reigned except for the hum of distant…
By Lena Rivera
Read MoreThorns And Roses
/…could write a poem about the beautiful sky,
lillies and butterflies and birds flying by.
I can write happily ever after fairy tales,
or of walking the beach, collecting…
By Simple Sue
Read MoreFrom Dust To Stardust
/… you’d like it here.
My words escape my lips
as chilled thoughts filtered
through…
By Andy Cooper
Read MoreA World Lost...
/In a world driven by screens…
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…are educated, yet we stumble,
eyes fixed on the artificial glow,
where we chase lives not our…
By Sutanuka Mondal
Read MoreThe Night Of The…
/How do you ward off…
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…the cloudless evening sprinkling illuminating stars, a large roar exploded shaking the striped ones stall, “Zebra,” Paulie calmly comforted, “those loud mechanical monsters are never going to replace…
By Marc OBrien
Read MoreAn Excess Of Zeal
/If Utopia requires…
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…are two inscriptions on the walls of the Temple at Delphi: Know Thyself; and Nothing in Excess. They were inscribed there some twenty-five hundred years ago. These two aphorisms were wise…
By K. L. Shipley
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