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Helium Hearts [Prose]

16 Jul 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Luz

  Hearts full of passion, hearts full of hate, hearts full of happiness and hearts full of pain. Overwhelming feelings bouncing all over the place like rubber balls filled with grace. Helium, we all have helium hearts. Our hearts float with every...

The End and the Beginning

25 Jun 2019 2 minute read 0 comments thestorychaser

The End and the Beginning                 You stand in the king’s throne room, beaten and bruised and coughing up blood. Spitefully, you’re glad that your blood is staining his fine, expensive carpets. You should regret all this, but you can’t, you d...

No Such Thing

25 Jun 2019 2 minute read 0 comments thestorychaser

No Such Thing                 Everyone knows that there isn’t such a thing like a happy ending, not in real life.                 If my life were different, if I still believed in magic and happily ever after, I’d have told you that I had my very own...

An Audience

25 Jun 2019 2 minute read 0 comments thestorychaser

An Audience                 Everyone, especially children, knows that there are many different kinds of fey folk.                 But there are two types that are particularly prominent: tooth fairies, and their larger, older counterpart, bone fairie...

Restless Souls

18 Jun 2019 2 minute read 1 comment thestorychaser

Restless Souls                 After the accident, I thought the first spirit I saw was a hallucination, a side effect of the pain meds they had me on. It happened to be the lady from the room across the hall, who’d been hospitalized with a harsh, wr...

The Old Ones Return

18 Jun 2019 2 minute read 0 comments thestorychaser

The Old Ones Return                 The oceans held untold secrets, but the biggest and most well-known was that they held The Old Ones fast, imprisoned at the bottom. And they were receding for the first time since the war had ended. Some people too...

Forgotten Gods

12 Jun 2019 2 minute read 1 comment thestorychaser

Forgotten Gods                 Once, I was a being of unimaginable power. I was able to wield the very power of life, of creation, like a weapon. The oceans rose at a mere flick of my fingers, and storms stirred in my very blood. But that was so long...

Fly Fishing Out of a Dead End Life

12 Mar 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Steve B Howard

This river has at least three names, The White River (the most common name), the Black River (the old name), and the Stuck River (the most appropriate name considering where I’m fishing today). There are fish here, I can feel it. I’m fly fishing fo...

Thru This Passage - Lore

18 Oct 2022 1 minute read 0 comments naykdhodlr

    EMERALD SAGE   `This door,' whispers the Emerald Sage - `opens to a blackness-abyss - through its portal you may choose to go(?); for it be your first, or may-be your last, only through passing to know; for its the lingering, taint of your past-...

Hay, cows and coops

30 Nov 2020 1 minute read 3 comments Jtfried

The hay is all in, cows are in the barn, The chickens are in the coop.My day has come to an end on the farm,Time to go rest and recoup."Hay, cows and coops" by Jerry E Smith©11/29/16This is now the third time I've tried to get this to go through.Muc...