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Original Poem: The Badgers

13 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Wharved

THE BADGERS In my effort to be a good sport about it all, I forgot to take the badgers into account. I remembered the partridges, jaguars and stoats, the turkeys, oxen and hamburger rats. I even remembered those mythical denizens that I'd never thoug...

Luminescence

10 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments shellatreille

Luminescence By Shelley M. Latreille Rejoin the living and embrace your scenic shadow.Disengage the chains and disconnect the lock.Your catatonic smile makes the sinister demons feel elated.Turn yourself inside out so that your internal monologue wi...

Road to Nowhere

6 Jan 2020 8 minute read 0 comments nimediapresentations

  My first published work- January 2020!   Road to Nowhere By Nicholas Italia After a long day at the office (and trampling about outside), I enter my house, pass through my living room to my bedroom, take off my Suffolk County Police uniform, change...

Abandoned - pt 4

4 Jan 2020 1 minute read 1 comment uthus2000

Part 3 here: While Josh's friends were having success in their newly enhanced lives, this wasn't true for everyone.  There were no news stories of catastrophic failures. There were no PSAs. There were only stories.  There was a story of a prominent p...

Abandoned - pt 3

3 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments uthus2000

Part 2 here: By the end of the first quarter of 2020, cell service providers were pushing their new 5G devices.  If a you lived in a densely populated area, the devices worked wonderfully. Web pages displayed almost immediately, mapping applications...

Abandoned - pt 2

30 Dec 2019 1 minute read 4 comments uthus2000

Part 1 here: Josh had always been something of a gray man. He didn't intentionally start out that way. It was merely a quirk of his personality. He was the guy just in the shadows. Attention was somewhat embarrassing to him and he deflected it whenev...

She heard a noise in her right super big ear

29 Dec 2019 1 minute read 0 comments paradise

She heard a noise in her right super big ear. As she stood up to the table, and looked to her left, she saw her little blue gi, ripped to shreds. "I couldn't believe it", she thought. She turned towards Ruby."Where did he go?" She almost jumped. "Obl...

Abandoned

28 Dec 2019 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000

Life had been relatively simple until recently for Josh. He was an electrician in a small company on the outskirts of urban sprawl. He worked five days a week because that was all he wanted. There were always opportunities to pick up a little side-wo...

An 20 minute mini audio book set to Miles Davis for anyone needing some escape from the festivities 🤶🏾🎄✌🏽

25 Dec 2019 10 minute read 0 comments (S)llew la Wulf

THE LAST KISS...     I knew the very first moment I felt your presence, before we spoke even, that there was a chemistry between us, deeper and more primal than I had felt for quite some time (like, millennia perhaps) and one that meant something be...

Waiting for Liza - A Flash Fiction Drama

9 Dec 2019 4 minute read 2 comments blueeyes8960

source edited in LunaPic Matt swirled the coffee in his cup and glanced for the umpteenth time at the bold watch on his wrist.  After his late night out, finally crawling into bed with the dawn, the last thing he’d wanted to do was pry himself out of...