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23 Sep 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Wahyu Nugraha
In a bustling corner of the city, lived a woman named Risma, the mother of an eight-year-old son named Ervan. Risma lived in financial hardship, struggling day after day to make ends meet. Their life was desperate, but Risma often felt pressured by...
2 Sep 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Note: The article Desertion of the Circus Animals contains more of my thoughts on this topic, and Raptured From A Kerouac Dream reminds me not to focus on it to the point that I neglect my spirit. But it was fun to write this out, and perhaps it will...
26 Aug 2025 4 minute read 0 comments RosieJSargent
The therapist's room was just as you'd expect it. An oak desk scattered with pens, paper, and paperweights. Windows abandoned by the daylight. Amber lamps and weak bulbs conjured shadows upon strange paintings that invoked nothing. An hourglass...
22 Aug 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Nurnobi Islam
Click to animate 🌿A short story, born from this art... The rain hadn't stopped since dusk, a relentless whisper against the window of the old Ford. Outside, the world was a canvas of deep grays and deeper blacks, broken only by the pulsing, arteri...
14 Jul 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Wopney
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, poi...
27 Jun 2025 1 minute read 1 comment Shugawrites
I didn’t write this just for women. I wrote it for anyone who thought they’d break the cycle only to realize they were standing in it, quiet and bleeding. Sometimes, we don’t become our parents. We become the wounds they never got the chance...
26 Jun 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Shugawrites
I was blowing balloons when the call came. We were preparing for our daughter’s second birthday. Her dress was laid out. Cupcakes were in the oven. The house was filled with sugar, soft music, and peace. Then my phone rang. “Madam, sorry…...
7 Jun 2025 10 minute read 0 comments Wopney
LONDON 1780: THE BURNING OF NEWGATE PRISON “Strike, and let the fire spread, For in the ashes lies the seed.” The protestors start by attacking the carriages of those arriving at Parliam...
20 Jan 2025 10 minute read 0 comments Wopney
Prometheus stole fire from the Gods. Mortals unleash it LONDON 1780 The protestors start by attacking the carriages of those arriving at Parliament. Criminals they held responsible for passing the Act. Yet, the anti-catholic sentiment soon morphs i...
3 Jan 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Wopney
Money is all but spent. That ship has almost sailed. Yanez is alone and lost, drunk in a dingy bar in the port town of Livorno, the ugly twin of Tuscan conurbations; medieval alleys and the renaissance ideal replaced by an industrial port belching...
