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Turning Point

27 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Vincent Van Zandvoort

Turning PointEvery answer I give you is wrong.Breaking mental resistance takes long.Do I need any strength to carry on?If I let you give, tomorrow,I’ll be gone.For the longest time.Leaves have been turning.Yellow, red, purple, brown.They’re glued to...

Wandering Angel

24 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Vincent Van Zandvoort

Wandering AngelI’ve lost the voice ‘twas in my head.I’ve lost my voice, but I’m not mad.If I’d only listened to my mother.Would I be a whole other man today?Could never tell the truth from fiction.Trusting, young, the ball, the lie.I’ve made it throu...

Maddy

20 Apr 2021 1 minute read 2 comments Vincent Van Zandvoort

MaddyShe was just there.Really came out of nowhere.She seemed to know.Just where she was going.Two unfolding soulsin a place made to lie.In the middle of one night.Where bad guys get robbedand go down with no fight.This is my kind of place.She’s my k...

Sandy

18 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Vincent Van Zandvoort

SandyWhere would I begin?Comfortable alone.No one cared for me.Just the way I chose.Now there’s change.Now nothing’s the same.I try to gain control,grab a hold.It’s no use I fall.Straight into your arms.You feel so safe and warm.It was so long ago.I...

Let Go

28 Feb 2021 1 minute read 2 comments DaBea

The ocean was steel, reflecting the cloud cover above. The grey sky gently hinted at nothingness, as if all that existed was a soft, unrelenting gray that would hang over all of creation for eternity. Soon, though, the sun reached up and over the hor...

Geology 101, lesson 1: Rocks are composite minerals

23 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments DaBea

I am a funny thing. I am rock deciding to see what it’s like to shape water rather than be shaped by it. My blood in the form of branching streams, flowing and moving. I turn the story inside out and become sediment transporting liquid. I did not kno...

Beware of vamps (An original short story) Part 1 of 5

22 May 2020 4 minute read 0 comments mgaft1

  The Slime Drawing.   “Come on Vince, be good. I just need to take a sample of your fluids.” “I want to suck your blood,” Vince is piercing Kuhn with his non-winking irksome eyes. “Cut this out! Come on, be a good sport and when we are done, I’ll g...

Borrowed Moments

21 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments cryptarter

    I can still remember when she's mine When she's his; yes, ours Her wicked smile that's so divine Deplete my priceless hours     She pulls me down on bed at night and covers my peripheral sight I wasn't blind that time at all I know how my friends...

Almost Real Emotions (An Original short story) Part 3 of 3

28 Apr 2020 5 minute read 1 comment mgaft1

Part 1Part 2   Art came late. Jenny already slept. He finished the rest of the dinner in the kitchen, took a shower, got undressed, and dived into the bed. He tried hugging the wife, but Jenny pushed him away. “Leave me alone!” she growled through a...

Almost Real Emotions (Part 2 of 3)

26 Apr 2020 4 minute read 3 comments mgaft1

To read Part 1 click here “Our system already understands people better than they understand themselves. Take a look. This is what the virtual traveler sees. That lady.” The salesperson clicked the button and Art saw a woman lying on her back with c...