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22 Mar 2021 5 minute read 0 comments Hanzell
[WP] You sit down one night as your wife brings you your tea. On your first forkful, you think "This is cold." You look up and she is gone. The table is covered in dust, the house is in ruins, and the sky is filled with ash. The war was raging betwe...
13 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Drakon
"This is Bentley," I say cheerfully when I overhear someone comment about the beautiful dog. Bentley is my collie, an old fashioned Lassie dog. We're walking down the busy main street of our home town. It's a nice evening with lots of folks enjoying...
12 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Drakon
It's a beautiful spring day with a compelling hum that is getting progressively louder. I step out into the warm sun looking for the source of that beckoning hum. I see a few bees buzzing around my garden and step over there to watch. Soon more bees...
12 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Mateja Razdragan
I don't know how long I can stay standing. In one of the secluded corners of the isolated lodging,I rested on my shoulder and heart, covering my face like myself in a golden cagefrom behind her hair that makes me feel; clouds first above us, thenI...
11 Mar 2021 4 minute read 0 comments schnitstorm
Before I begin typing away and telling you, dear reader, this very true story about what certain members of my family believe in, I must make you aware of the fact that this information is quite sensitive. Indeed, my mother told me that should this i...
9 Mar 2021 1 minute read 4 comments Ana Quiroga
Today it is a square in Barracas, with its slide and its sandpit, just opposite the Basilica of the Sacred Heart and two blocks from the motorway that takes traffic away southwards. In the past it was just an uncultivated, unpopulated plot of land wi...
4 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Ana Quiroga
This is one of the most shocking short stories I have ever read. It was written by the French polygraph Jean Cocteau (France, 1889-1963) who preferred to be considered only a poet. This story, selected by Borges and Bioy Casares, is part of the cultu...
3 Mar 2021 2 minute read 0 comments amart29
Peter -I repeat my story, I am Captain Peter Angel of the 22nd Figthter Squadron, I was on a reconnaissance mission in the Caribbean, I was flying a Curtis P-36, I had moved away from my squadron and was flying over a small islet, when the sky bega...
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...
25 Feb 2021 14 minute read 0 comments Dis0ri3nted
~Subject to change as I continue writing and creating this story~ “It’s like being inside a void. I’m there, but my body, and almost every part of my consciousness isn’t there with me. It’s just black… and silence all around. I’m just nothing, expe...
