Fiction

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Frozen and fooled

15 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

            The next morning we woke up to a double calamity.  Our guide had slipped away in the night, and the wind-blown snow had covered up all trace of the way he went.  The wind lashed snow in our faces.  We could barely see a few yards ahead. ...

A tale of a book

14 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

            It would have been inappropriate, even disrespectful, to further question the visitor along such lines.  Yet the main question still remained unanswered and bred a host of doubts in some of those present.  Why did he come to such a small...

Impromtu extrications

13 Mar 2023 9 minute read 1 comment Diomedes

            The body and even the mind of the old priest were now growing feeble.  The young and ambitious priests under him intrigued and maneuvered against each other to catch the power that would soon slip from his hands.  But they had somehow po...

The paper maiden

12 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

            Again he reached the ruined lighthouse and then the view of the town far ahead.  It was really a discreditable, little place.  He wondered why it had been allowed to exist at all, why the people hadn’t been shipped off to a regular city...

Midnight Snack

12 Mar 2023 19 minute read 0 comments Jeanne_writes

Grenville’s legs throbbed like a son of a bitch. He’d already walked six or seven miles, through the dips and valleys of the town of Caledon where he lived. At first, the chill night air had him wishing he’d brought a jacket but now, sweat rolled off...

The Crying Forest (Original Poetry)

12 Mar 2023 1 minute read 2 comments Krisz Rokk

Two paths leading into a mysterious forestOne filled with autumn leavesThe other one prepared to entangle its passengers into a white dream. An eternal void, waiting to be filled with mesmerizing storiesIgniting the hearts of curious adventurersFueli...

Out of paper

11 Mar 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

            It was a calm mid-afternoon when Jonathan set down his pen.  He was a little surprised, now that he thought about it, that the pen was still working.  It was the only one he had.  He tried to take it apart to find out how much ink was le...

A lucky encounter

10 Mar 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

            As the plague still took a large, weekly toll, our city kept pulling in its boundaries.  Many times whole acres of glasshouse facilities had to be piece-by-piece relocated.  The areas given up were burned and then razed to the ground so...

Buzzball

10 Mar 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

   Cicero                   From now on I was ignorant of what was happening to the rest of the world.  But I guess it followed pretty much the events occurring in Oakland.  When I began to wander the world a decade later, I could see that the outco...

Today's The Day

10 Mar 2023 22 minute read 0 comments Jeanne_writes

After his shower and shave, John Galloway plodded into the kitchen to make coffee. He’d sip it as usual while watching TV. It didn’t matter what was on, any old thing would do, even that insipid LIVE with Kelly and Ryan. He was never a Regis fan, but...