Stories and Poetry

1,136 Articles 3 Followers


Crossroads

24 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.02

It was wise to turn away. The van in the woods may very Well not be  Abandoned. Then again, The reaper may be sleeping. Go ahead and bet your life on it. It was wise to turn away. The people in the trees Are unimpressed By patches. Skater-death aest...

Believers in the Mist

28 Jun 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.13

It is good to be out of Arkansas, which is probably not the first time that sentiment has been expressed.  I was sent there to get my legal status renewed, and to remember why I left the country.  After 2 months of shaking cockroaches out of the Chee...

I Am Not My Mother… But I’m Bleeding Where She Did

27 Jun 2025 1 minute read 1 comment Shugawrites $0.03

I didn’t write this just for women.   I wrote it for anyone who thought they’d break the cycle   only to realize they were standing in it, quiet and bleeding.   Sometimes, we don’t become our parents.   We become the wounds they never got the chance...

Oridum Graybrow and the Burning of Stillmere, a Splinterlands lore expansion.

31 May 2025 8 minute read 0 comments NoZem $0.04

  Hey everyone and welcome back to my Splinterlands Blog, today it's a Saturday and it's time to make this weeks second post to take part in the Splinterlands Challenges, to hopefully fund my account a little more because OMG there are so many coo...

The Eclectic Geomet

16 May 2025 1 minute read 2 comments Will Jones $0.01

    Eclectic Geomet      ♠♠♠    I am an agent of cosine and tangent   as light blends   I am the spectrum, light into prisms ancient   as night ends   ♠♠♠   I am those terpenes, conifers adjacent   as aromatic whim   I go through corridors  pleasant...

The Wolf Who Wept Eternity

12 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.11

I turned the pages of the streetfrom 99 & Broadwayto the narrow path downtown I walked the length of the entirebookin an hour and ahalf I scrubbed the blood off the doorpostswith a dishrag soaked inwine I drove a symbol through an open field I did...

The Cautionary Fairytale

9 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.13

I can't remember the wordsto my ownstory The unauthorized autobiography The cautionary fairytale The boots that never fit The mansion in the driveway If you think you're not a writer you arewrite or maybewriting,maybe Wrong Not to say that you are...

A Flower Bloomed in the Hills

1 May 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Roshan11 $0.01

Roshni wakes before dawn every day, her white sari damp from dew, her hands rough from labor. In the eyes of her village, she is bokshi—a cursed widow whose presence is unwelcome at festivals, weddings, even temples. They say she took her husband’s l...

Austin is a Special Ed Class

23 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.03

DamnedDoomendCondemend You can't even see it The hubris on your face Your lipstick madeof scrambledeggs "Liberalize Yourself" Tik-Tok Filter   You don't remember Red River,do you Never found the lightswitchfor the moon Or scuffed your boots on neon...

Esoterics One

22 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Will Jones $0.01

  ⁜⁜ swagg ex-pat thru liquid esoterics   I swipe left Kenganda   I love the Maghreb, Etriea and Ethiopia   I grooved Ghana     On some typa schmooze Wode Maya   audacious melodrama   Mau Mau , Muhammar, and of Wakanda   I peruse & binge watch   in...