Picks of the Month
August
last orders at 'the weekend dad'
last orders at ‘the weekend dad’ she’ll be home now the back bedroom with the coloured lights you put up as you sit uncleared screwed up serviettes...
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- 594 reads
The secret life of Pizzly Bears
It shouldn't be allowed. It can't be permitted. It should never happen. And if anyone had told him, he wouldn't have believed it. If he had read it...
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- 415 reads
July
The Watchers In The Walls
It was better in the fort. Tucked between the couch and the wall. Made of three blankets, two couch cushions, and a big cardboard box from Mom’s new...
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- 2773 reads
June
The Vale - Part One (b)
It’s always the same at this time, late afternoon, early evening. The dropping sun, the hunched commuters scurrying home to the safety of their...
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Fifty-One Empty Places at the Dinner Table
Who can sleep while the genocide goes on in Gaza? Certainly not me.
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May
Triumphant Folly In The Park
My Thoughts Dear diary... Embodiment of esteemed antiquity delivered through energetic spring; dappled light emerges in resolution where trembling...
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The Fish on the Hill
My April, the first of two parts, and restricted to 100 words per day so that I can’t be accused of banging on about it.
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- 4226 reads
April
I am the stillness
I am, not in the way fire roars, but in the hush between storms. I am the breath the forest holds before the wind remembers how to move. They rush,...
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It's obviously a plot behind the human race's back
“Do you know who I am? Do you still recognize me?” asks Super Mario. The Plumber walks into the living room. She waters the plants. When she turns...
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March
Chapter 25
Chapter 25 (No missing chapter. I extended chapter 23 and split it into two.) Alice stirred, sensing a presence in her room before she opened her...
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