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3 Aug 2025 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
When we finally did steer our course back to Oregon it was to return Ted to our farming community. Now in his fifties he was weary of this never-ending camping escapade. He missed June, his wife, and wanted to sleep in his bed with her again, with...
3 May 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
My long and disastrous relationship with Dora had taught me to always be on the lookout for subliminal influences, that is, mind control in all its various forms, from overt, brain-blinding, delusional spells to the sweet and slight persuasive whi...
20 May 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The complex chemistry that makes a man settle down and want to start a family, mostly a lust for a particular woman and the stipulations of pregnancy just didn’t play out the hand I’d been dealt so far in life. I’d never had a steady girlfriend in...
24 Jan 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The secret life of writing Life without others The next portion of my life (from July 1980 to July 1982) deserves a preface, or perhaps an apology, or better yet, an essay on solitude, because these two years contain almost no action, no social li...
16 Sep 2022 2 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
"People who test their friendships with others aren't friends; they're arseholes", she wrote. Well, as a self-confessed arsehole, I'm glad we're not friends, because the people who write things like that with conviction are the people who are fair-...
17 Oct 2021 2 minute read 1 comment Heruvim78
I always admired the people who can write about just anything, the people who can sit in front of the screen and just make you wonder, putting one interesting thing after another, or just rumbling with style. So today I will talk about inspiration. I...
1 Sep 2021 4 minute read 2 comments SA_Sam1971
[Disclaimer: This short story contains content of a sensitive nature which may serve as a trigger for anyone who struggles with themes around death and loss] About 3 months ago, I woke up. The sound of whirring and bleeping and muffled crackling voi...
3 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AlmightyMelon
On parle les trucs stupides Where? Here: Dis (inter) course; Water flows uphill where Ocean meets land. I am inundated By the sound and the light, Watching the sun and moon And stars Die in the still moving Surface of the waves. As I am carried Along...
16 Mar 2019 1 minute read 0 comments erimo
After a week of pressure and hard work, it's time to pamper yourself. As you meet the deadline at work, you have to meet personal satisfaction as well. Life is too short. You're here not to put all the burdens on your shoulder, but to live life to th...
