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

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Blue Black Night Of Winter

Mellifluous

1 min read

Navy blue of night,

apprehensive steps

past pages torn perpendicular.

It’s abstract intentionality,

icicles in December woods,

shadows azure with cold,

silver snow cloaked

under weight of yesteryear’s womb.

The ancestors still pushing

to come through. So many stories

still wait to be true. Depth of sadness

too heavy to tell

in real time.

_With nothing to grasp, _

_no one will connect…_

but ...

Poetry

Mystery

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Leo Doyle

1 min read

Dear you know who you are,

She's beautiful no matter what she wears. Manipulative like nobody. Soft blue eyes that could lure anyone to a timely death. Years of it; I can barely handle a glance at them. Red, brown, blonde, black, blue. All hair colors she's abused. Yet she always seems to fall back on red. She likes her hair straight but leaves it the natural curly on occasion. Thin but a condes...

Horror

Mystery

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Leo Doyle

1 min read

Your scent lingers

My heart races

A promise is only to cross one's fingers

Yet my throat closes as I look at the bookcases

My own fingers

Your damn so called holy places

Far too long winters

So many high praises

A sick dogwood winter

Why would I ever drink anything but Cervezas

A certain type of splinters

In the summers of false acacias

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Poetry

Mystery

Home In The Darkness

Wilder

1 min read

The rain sliced us like knives. The thunder shook the land and the lightning illuminated the night sky. We were not alone.

There was a killer with us in these woods and no body had a phone to call for help. We had to make a it through the night. Or it would be death.

“Kasey, don’t go alone. Never go alone. Your injured,” Henry muttered into my ear.

He had a point. There was a dagger wedged int...

Horror

Mystery

The Lie

Miles Schreiber

3 min read

I turned around to my desk and stared at the computer screen. Then I turned back to John and said: "You know how you still like me and respect me? Well, get ready to stop. Because here's the reason I'm so guilty and keeping secrets: I'm married and I have three kids."

"You are?" He asked.

"Yeah, I got married fifteen years ago." I said.

"Then what's all the stuff with the six other women?" Jo...

Drama

Mystery

The Circle

Bails

1 min read

My eyes drifted open. I heard the soft tapping of rain on my tent. My friend in the sleeping bag next to me. I closed my eyes and tried to fall asleep but to my dismay I could not, my heart was pounding for reasons unknown to me. I thought a walk would calm my senses. I unzipped the tent and stepped out feeling the cool liquid tapping my skin. I closed the zipper I had exited to keep the heat tra...

Mystery

The Secret of the Rose

Isa832

1 min read

Labled „the most beautiful flower in the world“

the symbol of beauty and love

each delicate petal a piece of the stunning artwork

The Rose

so Perfect

nearly Perfect

but not quite

sharp spikes all over it

covering it like a protective barrier

making everyone trying to touch it, flinch back

The Thorns

The Flaw

ruining Perfection

ruining Everything

What is their purpose?

Why do they exist?

Why...

Poetry

Mystery

Heavy Lights

Askcoo

2 min read

Children’s laughter and giggles filled the buzzing arcade on Saturday night as I silently mopped the floors. “_When will somebody take their kids home?” _I thought, ears ringing from the deafening music of Pac-Man and Donkey Kong playing in the background. Just then, however, an unsettling silence fell upon the room, and a weight of my shoulders had been lifted. Looking around, my eye widened, rea...

Horror

Mystery

What’s Wrong With Me?

Miles Schreiber

3 min read

John asked me, "So what about you, man? No wife or partner, no kids, no situationship or throuple?" He grinned, mischievously.

I sighed. "Not exactly. I'm in love."

"See, I knew it." John chuckled. "You have love in your heart. You have so much to give, Deacon, I'm happy you found someone to share it with."

I nodded. "I'm in love with several women."

He cocked his head quizzically. "Say that a...

Drama

Mystery

Night Shift

𝔖𝔥𝔞𝔡𝔬𝔴

1 min read

At the weekends average high-schooler Brandon took care of a demonic arcade, demons occupying arcade machines was not on his bingo card but hey that’s how the cookie crumbles.

This weekend though, they teamed up and thought it would be funny to wind him up.

So at closing they chose to flash ‘game over’ in bright red letters, this gave him a fright but nothing new.

“Try harder”, he said.

Lights...

Horror

Mystery