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Construction Accidents

27 Mar 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Drakon

     I’ve been waiting all spring for this! Well not quite like this, but still, I’ve been waiting for his return. This is the fourth year this gentleman has come to me for construction materials. Oh, you didn’t know I was in the building supply busi...

You aren't what others say

27 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments YmcyL.

    At an auction I was at a pony came along. He was to tall,soft backed (a condition in Gaited ponies and horses),a seemed crazy because he ran into a rail. To start the bidding my mom put a $50 bid on him. Of course someone will pay more than that...

Learn to Appreciate

25 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments YmcyL.

  Once upon a time, there was a man who was very helpful, kindhearted, and generous. He was a man who will help someone without asking anything to pay him back. He will help someone because he wants to and he loves to. One day while walking into a du...

Mercury and the Woodman

25 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments YmcyL.

  A poor Woodman was cutting down a tree on the bank of a river, when his axe, glancing off the trunk, flew out of his hands and fell into the water. As he stood by the water's edge lamenting his loss, Mercury appeared and asked him the reason for hi...

I lost everything

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...

Making Space for Wisdom

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...

Summoned by the Queen

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...

Magma Carta

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...

My Mother Says Joe Biden is Jim Carrey in a Mask (and Other Facts from Telegram)

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...

The Slaughterhouse Yard, by Ana Quiroga - short story

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...