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Please Don't Shoot, But I'm Taking a Break

31 Jul 2023 4 minute read 9 comments Allen Taylor $0.56

Today, I'm breaking with my normal routine to post on a Monday to make an announcement. Regular readers know I've been writing about Web3 topics for two years and separately about Christian topics for about as long. On Wednesdays, I curate the top ne...

Flown

9 Jul 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Espressoytonica $0.03

Oh, the days have flown so swiftly by,Since first thy heart I won, And in thine eyes I saw the sigh Of love, which ne'er was done. Oh, the nights have flown so swiftly by,Since first thy lips I pressed, And in thine arms I felt the sigh Of love, whic...

A Plea for Peace

3 Jul 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Espressoytonica $0.03

The world is weary of the din of war,The clash of arms, the scream of shell and mine;Weary of blood, and weary of the dinOf hatred's voice, and of the lust of crime. Weary of strife, and weary of the tearsThat flow from eyes of women and of men;Weary...

Fragment 87

29 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist $0.03

It is known that after the Paper God had abandoned the Here for the Otherwhere. Its unutterable consort, Sufa the Braided, descended into a maelstrom of horror and unbalance. Shedding tears of salt a thousand-fold more caustic than the anguish of any...

Caged Bird

28 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Espressoytonica $0.02

I The heart is a blackened coal That burns and smoulders still, And the mind is a barren soil Where no flowers can ever will. II The soul is a caged bird That beats its wings in vain, And the body is a corpse that girds Its shroud about it again. III...

Exile

27 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Espressoytonica $0.02

  In a land that is not my own, I dwell, a stranger alone. The language is strange, The customs are strange, But I'm learning to adapt, I'm not stone. I long for my homeland, For the sights and sounds I hold dear. For the people I love, And the thing...

Fragment 86

21 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist $0.03

He turns from his listless sea-gazing and peers at Pyna, who perches, still as statuary.  Her eyes glistening like chips of cracked opal, wandering some unknowable middle-distance. “Do you ever speak, plainly.” Plain is not What Was Proffered. Someth...

The Machine (Fiction)

19 Jun 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Krisz Rokk $0.14

Covered by leaves and little tree branches, he laid there barely moving for ten hours when he decided to take a sneak peak and hide behind a bigger tree. The forest was the closest place he could run to hide when Mr. Andrews released the machines the...

Fragment 85

17 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist $0.01

Her presence is silent and opaque.  A secret place. A piece of porcelain penetralia.  A puzzle-box, gazing meditatively out over the sloshing, nighted sea. Umin regards Pyna for a wordless moment, before turning to peer out again into endless, lightl...

Speculative Fiction Readers: Get a Free Advance Review Copy of These Books

10 Jun 2023 1 minute read 2 comments Allen Taylor $0.50

Hey, Can I snag five minutes of your time? I'm looking for 25 people to help me launch a 3-part speculative fiction anthology series. Based on Old Testament Bible stories, the Biblical Legend Anthology Series features multiple authors interpreting th...