Writing to share thoughts in a digestible and hopefully entertaining form.
25 Nov 2019 2 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
Rosaline turned off her phone, fell her face down on the bed, her dense black hair scattered over a pillow and broke into tears. Her heart was broken. Her boyfriend Jim, a person whom she gave all of her heart, mind, and body, betrayed her with anoth...
11 Nov 2019 3 minute read 4 comments mgaft1
“Again you were sitting like a Stonehenge idol at the table. Why didn't you talk to anybody?” “About what?” “About what? What difference does it make about what? Just make small talk, maintain a conversation.Talk about whatever… Weather for example.”...
29 Oct 2019 3 minute read 2 comments mgaft1
Robot guard opened the door of the cell and Marcus walked it. He looked around the room. There were around 12 other people in the cell. The door closed behind Marcus. All eyes were directed at him. A tall guy with a tattoo of a walrus on his biceps w...
21 Oct 2019 6 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
Men closed the balcony door to smoke cigarettes and tell jokes. From time to time, from the balcony, ladies heard roars of laughter and half-drunk screams in pretending voices – “boys”, who knew each other since college times, remembered good old day...
3 Oct 2019 9 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
Hello Friends, While being in one of the Yahoo writing groups, I participated in literary contests. The group owner came up with the writing prompt (the title of the story) and all the participants wrote the story, which title was the owner's prompt....
2 Oct 2019 5 minute read 2 comments mgaft1
"Ok. Let's get the next caller. That's Jerome from Inglewood. Jerome, you're on Tom Linquist show." "Hey, Tom, how're ya doing?" "Doing great." "Tom, I wanna tell ya. Love your show. I think you're the best." "Thanks, Jerome. Appreciate that. What...
30 Sep 2019 7 minute read 2 comments mgaft1
The day before Thanksgiving, Grace Loren sat at a table with planted elbows and head rested on the palm of her hands. The table stood in the middle of the small studio apartment that she rented with her son Leslie. A foul smell from a leaky sewer pi...
29 Sep 2019 9 minute read 2 comments mgaft1
“What are you doing Hammie? The tablets are fragile. You’re going to destroy the list?” Shem exclaimed looking at Ham who scattered the piles of clay tablets all over the warehouse floor. He grabbed Ham from behind not letting him move. Ham was sh...
27 Sep 2019 3 minute read 4 comments mgaft1
"Grandpa, grandpa, look at those fishes!" The little boy pulled Russell by his hand toward the bridge. The bridge crossed an artificial pond. From the height of a bird's flight, the pond looked like glasses with the nose bridge, where it was crossed...
26 Sep 2019 2 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
It was a beautiful winter day at about 3:30 p.m. Sun was shining on houses decorated for Christmas. Snow crunched under my ski boots indicating the temperature about -15 degrees Celsius. The forest started right next to the hotel where I stayed duri...
