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My Baby

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My baby and I have a lot in common. Her dark curly hair , her deep brown eyes, her bl

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A New Start

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I watch as the coffin lowers into the ground. It’s raining and crowded. Someone i

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Stop Watch

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When he’d say to me, ‘I’m not ready to die yet’, I’d just smile. Nervously - what can

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THE TURKISH LUR

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Archeologists have made a breaking discovery in Turkey’s ancient musical history: the

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The Path

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Slowly, carefully, Hector walks along the narrow path, leading his horse Carrot behin

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Her

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No grave can hold my body down; I'll crawl home to her. Her dark beauty renders the

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Her

Birdspirit……..aka Linda

1 min read

Her golden hair was tied back with a leather strap

Silver bangles of fight were on her arm in a wrap

Her weapon was not like Robin Hood with a bow

Secretly hidden on her body only she does know

She doesn’t use a past called ball and chain at all

She uses her inner power and crushes the call

Men and others fear her and her mysterious way

She will protect her kingdom and the dogs will play

The...

Poetry

Mystery

Awkward Silence

Nova Ryan

3 min read

Silence is a complete absence of sound. Many experience this everyday even multiple times a day. It can be a part of many things that are beautiful and it can be a part of horrible things too. The silence before the validictorian gives their gut-wrenching speech at graduation can be looked at as a good silence. In this case it’s the build up to a very sweet moment. The silence in a room full of sc...

Mystery

Horror

Fate of an Ant

RRR

1 min read

"I wish to have the fate of an ant—nameless, dead, forgotten."

I walk home slow. It is in my nature to observe.

This route I have walked is one I have seen many times, yet I have been blind to it all the same.

A tree on the grassy lawn of the park stands tall, at attention—attracting my attention.

As always.

But today, I observe its roots.

The roots are the foundation which the tree stand...

Adventure

Mystery

The Smell Of Gunpowder

livvy

1 min read

The slamming loudness from silence lingers inside my ears—

shaking the very core I’ve cradled in my entire body.

“I’ve never felt this kind of silence.”

Genuinely concerned, scouring through my brain.

It’s reached crevices, and areas my body couldn’t refuse.

Pulling the smell further in my nostrils.

One cave at a time.

What is this feeling?

My whole life I’ve lived in loudness—

never finding t...

Thriller

Mystery

When The Sun Doesn’t Rise

⚜️RomanticalWrites⚜️

1 min read

I told my parents that when I grew older, I would have a chance at anything.

And for some reason, I didn’t.

My eyes shot open, my ears listening wearily for any source of sound.

Nothing.

I’d been running for almost two weeks now.

From what?

I don’t know.

But it felt like I needed to.

That if I didn’t stay still, they’d get me.

Now, my eyes couldn’t spot any light hardly, just a small...

Mystery

Thriller

Broken inside

X.H

1 min read

The moon outshined the stars,

Leaving memories in my heart.

Thoughts and Feelings shine out my name,

Souls Remain yet broken in me.

Tears fall, numb to some.

yet again, the moon outshines the stars,

calling memories from Where I reside.

Imagery craved deep into my mind,

Dreams to what felt nonexistent in reality.

Nonexistent, yet still living—

The Reality of the unnoticed.

Seeming pain thumps r...

Poetry

Mystery

Dead Or Alive?

Nova Ryan

8 min read

It was December 24th, 2012. The sun was making its final decent past the hills and the moon was beaming. I just pulled the ham out of the oven while my older sister Delilah set the table. My father Leonardo and my younger sister Christa were finishing up the movie in the living room. I heard a knock on the door and asked Delilah to go get that. We weren’t expecting any guests this late but we live...

Crime

Mystery

10/23/25

Milivia Crockskrooo

1 min read

Why does love become a battlefield?

Why does life bring me to tears?

Why do some seek out blood when others seek to heal?

Why does the sun rise and set everyday?

Why does the moon become different shapes?

Why do people die?

Why does the sky change colors?

Why am I sitting here writing this poem?...

Mystery

10/22/25

Milivia Crockskrooo

1 min read

Preface...

"You ripped my life to shreds now it's time I return the favor." Hazel whispered. All this was a horrible mistake. "I..I didn't mean it." I whispered to her. She smiled so innocently as if she knew that she didn't do anything even though she did. My life flashed before my eyes as she grabbed my neck with a firm hold and everything went pitch black.

Chapter 1.....

Horror

Mystery

Annoying Person

vin88

1 min read

There was this person that always bugs me and it is super annoying to be near them. The person have every friend in the school and every girl likes him. But he is always annoying to me and to me only. So one day he fell on a rock and got hert but I remembered that and the next day he was being annoying to me and I said “remember the time that you fell and everyone laughed”. The next day he stoped ...

Mystery

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