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You Can't Fool Mom: A very Short Story

22 Feb 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Rajpootg

  Peace be upon you all.   Very Warm Greetings to everyone. 🙂💚✨I wish you all success, happiness, and prosperity. I hope your days are full of joy, peace, and little moments that make you smile.🌟 Prompt for today's story is "SUBJECT". The task i...

Editorial comments (and style choices that are either dying or dead - and they should stay dead)

13 Feb 2026 2 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Language evolves, including in writing. And as someone who's been writing professionally for about a decade or so, there are a few things I've noticed, and I wanna share them. All-caps headlines - no, just no please This used to be a thing in Engli...

Hopelessness

28 Dec 2025 2 minute read 0 comments rah

Today I am presenting you my readers with another fragment of my work in progress, which am hoping will become my fourth full novel.  Enjoy! ‘Out! Out! Out!’ Disorientated and lost as she was, Nina immediately realised that the minibus had pulled to...

Driven by Selfish Desire

19 Dec 2025 2 minute read 3 comments rah

For today I have decided to publish something I wrote a few years ago that has long since been (traditionally) published. I like to mix up what i share to keep my readers interested. I woke up angry. I am aware now in hindsight that I was being com...

A Weird Bit of Code

10 Dec 2025 4 minute read 1 comment rah

Following the generally positive reception to the last snippet I posted a couple of days ago. Here is a  little something else from earlier in the same novel. Just a bit of fun with "pointless" coding, but that is exactly the point. Don't try to figu...

A Snippet - A Plan - Tension Growing!

6 Dec 2025 1 minute read 0 comments rah

Today it is Saturday so it is time to share something very different. This is a short section I wrote during some downtime yesterday for a novel I am working on (I am already twice-published through a traditional publisher and have three KDP short st...

VAGABONDS & DELINQUENTS

8 Nov 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Wopney

Bellamy's Crew   Men of feckless irresponsibility who scorned those with a home, preferring the flat horizons of seas than the cramped walls and cubicles of sedentary living. They neatly sidestepped whole generations that had been bound in chains, p...

Prometheus stole fire..Mortals set it free

31 Oct 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Wopney

BURN IT DOWN London, 1780 Bellamy raps the keeper’s door with his knuckles like a drummer testing a skin. Three knocks. Silence. The brass ring gleams back at him through smoke and night. He turns, gives the crowd a small bow, and points. That’s t...

The Streetlamp Keeper's Daughter

8 Oct 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Nurnobi Islam

The photograph arrived on a Tuesday, slipped under Noor's apartment door in a manila envelope with no return address. She almost threw it away—another piece of junk mail, probably—but something about the weight of it made her pause. Inside was a sin...

Love And Regret

25 Sep 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Wahyu Nugraha

On a sunny morning, where the residents of the house are busy with their respective activities, Rey is busy with preparing to go to school, her father is busy watering flowers and some chili and tomato plants, while her mother is busy cooking fried r...