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In The Blind

23 Nov 2022 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000

In the pre-dawn hours, I sit huddled in my debris blind overlooking a game trail that white tails frequent. I hear movement in front of me over toward my right. Sticks breaking, leaves crunching. "That's not a deer," I think to myself. "Who's t...

Short Story Challenge - Day 16

22 Nov 2022 1 minute read 2 comments Heruvim78

  As I promised, this month I will do another writing challenge, this time the focus will be on storytelling, and I will try to immortalize a fragment of life, a short story about something that made me wonder, being that an idea or a peek into a st...

Back Home

21 Nov 2022 10 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

The Foxhead after expansion. On the first morning back home I apathetically picked up our rag of a local paper, the ‘Niagara Falls Review’ and opened it to the small 'help wanted' section.  There were maybe ten listings in a week, and almost all of...

Short Story Challenge - Day 15

21 Nov 2022 1 minute read 1 comment Heruvim78

  As I promised, this month I will do another writing challenge, this time the focus will be on storytelling, and I will try to immortalize a fragment of life, a short story about something that made me wonder, being that an idea or a peek into a st...

Stay up

21 Nov 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Rachabel

    Before putting my head on the pillow at night My longing and passion for you startYou are  present in my wakeness and thought You are the one whom I always think about   I am trapped in the grip of your enchantmentI am drift into your bewitchme...

La Perla

20 Nov 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

The San Juan gift shop. Our main job was to cover both side of the store for some forty feet back with what they call ‘slat-wall’ that glossy, white wood with horizontal black strips cut into it eight inches apart, into which you insert and slide all...

Setting Effective Goals, III.

20 Nov 2022 3 minute read 1 comment Olawalium

It's a continuation and it's easier to understand based on the title. I have been explaining the importance of setting goals, staying encouraged and stepping outside our comfort zone. We need to set the kind of goals that would make us effective beca...

Setting Effective Goals, II.

19 Nov 2022 3 minute read 2 comments Olawalium

It's a continuation and it's easier to understand based on the title. I am explaining the importance of setting goals - the kind of goals to set and how to go about making an effective one that would keep us motivated rather than discouraged. 3 Ma...

Short Story Challenge - Day 13

19 Nov 2022 2 minute read 1 comment Heruvim78

As I promised, this month I will do another writing challenge, this time the focus will be on storytelling, and I will try to immortalize a fragment of life, a short story about something that made me wonder, being that an idea or a peek into a stran...

Affliction

19 Nov 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  It’s Saturday. I have little to do, so I took the luxury of staying in bed an extra hour, letting my thoughts roam, and lines of poetry, many favorites over the many decades since my youth came to mind. A few brought a tear to my eye. It was a sad...