The Carriage…
/The Carriage: A Golden Shovel
I used the Golden Shovel …
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Pain spilled forth onto the page because
remorse and hopelessness were all…
By Laura Daniels
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Torture and Woe
/As we age, we attempt to …
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Every day I wake up hurting.
It was not this bad a year ago.
Past accidents did cause …
By Debby Hackbarth
Read MoreHer Name Is Samira
/My weakness was that I couldn’t be discreet. Which was why when I fell in love with the cook, the affair was like an open secret. Was it love? I couldn’t tell what label to put on a mixture of lust, loneliness and …
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreYou don't Know…
/The phrase, “Nobody cares…
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You can’t. No one can. No matter how sympathetic, or empathetic, you may be to someone else’s pain, you can’t feel it. The nervous system only works for…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreLosing You
/Daniel Fury was spending Saturday afternoon as he often did, sitting alone at the bar, nursing a pint of bitter and reading his book. There was something almost magical about reading a good book over a nice pint of beer, in a cosy …
By Chris Platt
Read MoreDr. Merkle and Mr. Hyde
/An appointment with a ‘pain…
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There once was a guy from St. Loo,
Who had not one ego but two.
He could feel light as a…
By CraigE
Read MoreWhile It Rained
/…sat on the floor, my back against the bed, staring through the open window at the palm fronds swaying in the strong …
By Benjamin Nambu
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