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"Oneiroi" (Greek myth - gods of dream)

By Penny4athought on Tue, 06 Feb 2024

Pasty faces and foggy lands In dreams that shake the soul Phobetor weaves a tapestry Of dank and dripping shrouds To chill the blood and tremble lips...

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"The Coffee House Spy" 14

By Penny4athought on Sat, 03 Feb 2024

“Give us some answers and we may leave you in a nice place when we dump you.” Brent threatened with a cold smile. “I’ve already told you I’m a bead...

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"Unwanted Magic" 4

By Penny4athought on Sat, 03 Feb 2024

Joey listened intently to the bird’s singing in the tree and began to hum the tune along with them trying to remember the words. Joey’s dad picked up...

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"Willow's Missing Tail" 12

By Penny4athought on Sun, 28 Jan 2024

“Perfidia, I’m sure Jon isn’t in jeopardy with your cousin,” Martha reasoned. “And I’m not so sure,” Perfidia replied and turned back to Willow with...

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I love how this opened a

Posted on Sat, 22 Jun 2024

I love how this opened a flood of comments and I read every one, all kinds of opinions and facts to be shared here. And that is what good writing needs to do or in this case a commentary. It opened up a discussion, created a marketplace of ideas...

Posted in "For, being green, there is great hope" (quote from Shakespeare's HENRY VI PART 2, ACT 3 SCENE 1)

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Like Jenny your story hit me

Posted on Sat, 31 Aug 2024

Like Jenny your story hit me in a familiar way. In 2005 both of my parents became sick with life ending illnesses, we didn’t know about my mom’s until a week before she passed away. My dad lingered on for two months past her. It was life altering...

Posted in Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Facing up

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I think I took a different

Posted on Fri, 30 Aug 2024

I think I took a different walk through this poem. One that was only in the mind, imagined. Where all things spark, light and dark.That forest was haunting; its ability to spring forth optimism and its penchant for snubbing it out were well...

Posted in Forest in the Brain

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Empathy and innocent logic of

Posted on Sun, 21 Jul 2024

Empathy and innocent logic of a child mixed with the ability to believe magic is possible; a lovely poem that touches the child in all of us.

Posted in Making Potions

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Intriguing start, can't wait

Posted on Sun, 21 Jul 2024

Intriguing start, can't wait to see where this leads and what that thing is...have a feeling it might be magic, but not sure if its good. Hope there is more.

Posted in Tom's Secret

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Oh Jenny I hope you are

Posted on Mon, 24 Jun 2024

Oh Jenny I hope you are better soon; I'm so sorry to hear you have pneumonia. Please take care of yourself. -- I am happy to see you're writing and I much enjoyed this 'dear diary' post. I was taken in by the vivid imagination stirred by an out...

Posted in His Flight

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An honor and a true surprise-

Posted on Tue, 21 May 2024

An honor and a true surprise- Thank you so much

Posted in "Book of All Answers"

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I agree with all comments

Posted on Wed, 22 May 2024

I agree with all comments above; this is interesting in the extreme...a soul train to purgatory and now on platform 2?...All is unknown. I can't wait for the next part to see where this will lead.

Posted in The 16:03 to Purgatory (Part One of Two)

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Beautiful poetic rendering of

Posted on Wed, 22 May 2024

Beautiful poetic rendering of the quiet beauty of nature; if that all could see its worth as you do and work to preserve it; the world would be better for it; and so would we. Lovely poem Jenny; thank you for posting it.

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Enjoyed reading this and I

Posted on Mon, 20 May 2024

Enjoyed reading this and I understood that part about trying to put yourself to sleep, when your mind just fills with mundane stuff, and won't keep quiet no matter how much you try to shut it down. You’ve a good attitude about the day not going...