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My mother's impossible nightmare

30 Apr 2020 3 minute read 2 comments ramonoropeza $0.05

We are in the year 2000 and my mother works at the Compañía Anónima Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela (CANTV for its Spanish acronym). She works as a telecommunications technician at that company. She has been during its privatization and nationalizati...

When You Get Tired

29 Apr 2020 2 minute read 0 comments cryptarter $0.01

As a human, we are bound to have limitations. From the things we want, versus what we can just have; to the things we receive, against the things we’d like to have, and things we can tolerate to have. Life is never about wanting for something and toi...

Airship Story

22 Apr 2020 8 minute read 0 comments Iohannes $0.02

This story was started in 2011. I was going to try and get it published in a collection of short stories, but the project didn't pan out. So, with this platform, and somewhat going with the blog's theme, I figure might try and give it new life here....

Imani: Book Review

4 Apr 2020 2 minute read 0 comments troynamps $0.16

Title: Imani Author: Liliane Mukidi ISBN: 978-0-9947229-2-8 Release Date: 10 November, 2018 Imani is a book written to speak louder than our imaginary voices. It brings a better appreciation of the fact that literature is the mirror through which so...

United, We Are Family

26 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments troynamps $0.11

Woman...You're widowed not estranged,We share your loss with youYou may have lost a husband,But the loss isn't yours aloneWe lost a father, son, brother, uncleand friend tooWe are with you World...Down with the segregationShare the love moreIt's need...

Respect & Love The Woman

26 Mar 2020 1 minute read 2 comments troynamps $0.10

Man...Don't allow it to control you,Be in chargePreside over body, mind and soul - Stop thinking with your genitals,Use your head think,mouth to speak and be heardears to listenheart to loved and be loved back.Not hands to hold her downNot legs to ki...

Bedbug Part 2 of 2

29 Feb 2020 6 minute read 1 comment mgaft1 $0.02

  THE BEDBUG   To read the first part click here     Greg closed the door to the office and found the pages where the archivist angels were located. He compared the prayers - identical. Only the names are different. Angel Radur...

Bedbug Part 1 of 2

29 Feb 2020 6 minute read 2 comments mgaft1 $0.04

  Greg felt like having something sweet. He placed a twenty-calorie lollipop in his mouth and sucked on it. He'd already purchased the souvenirs his wife had requested for their upcoming visit to relatives, so he decided to take a little stroll. The...

Prose "I have become a dolphin"

16 Feb 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Soyunasantacruz $0.03

Prose "I have become a dolphin"   Image by Willyam Bradberry from Pixabay     I wake up very early and the sun hasn't warmed up my body. Is it because I live in the ocean?   I feel very relaxed and the calm waves take me to the deepest waters. I go w...

Growing yourself through Books

11 Feb 2020 2 minute read 4 comments Jaemoney $0.11

I actually don’t like reading. It’s not fun, my mind wanders most of the time, and its hard to concentrate. So I find reading to be a bit of a chore. However, having said that, reading is perhaps the most potent activity that has has transformed the...