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THANK GOD FOR THE COOK

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I couldn’t help staring. She started a little over a month ago. The only server at th

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The One's Who Stood When Told to Kneel.

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They came before the sun rose. The soldier's boots sank into the waterlogged earth

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Ready Player Two

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Charcoal and Caramel

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Mom's hair used to be strawberry blonde. The sort of blonde you would only see on Ame

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“Oh that’s so cute..!” I munch on a fry. “And a little cheesy.” He chuckles, a playfu

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𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓸𝓽𝓽𝓸𝓷𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓻𝔂

1 min read

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𝓣𝔀𝓸 𝔀𝓪𝔂 𝓶𝓲𝓻𝓻𝓸𝓻

I stared in the eyes of the person I hated most;

they looked right back at me without a single blink.

They had brown hair, pretty blue eyes, and weren't very tall.

I looked in the eyes of the person I hated most today;

they stared back at me without a single move.

They stared back at me with the same hatred as I did them,

hatred burning hot as the sun in t...

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Poetry

Is Death Peaceful?

Siren

1 min read

_Peaceful. A word used to describe Death. A gentle caress to bring your last moments to an end with the kiss of poison. Beautiful. What if they were lying?.. See, society is easy to trick by simply saying the same phrase over and over again because eventually, everyone will believe it. How do you think a dictators take over, or persuade so many to follow their cause? So the question remains.. is D...

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The Water That Day

Anna7

1 min read

I thought I’d never get away. I kept paddling and paddling till my night turned to day. I found a place to hide, hoping they gave up and went away. I fell asleep under a tree no longer worried about the rhythm of my heart beating. Voices echoed through the valley walls. I reached once more for my paddle wishing I’d never been here at all. Strokes turned into desperation. I struck the water hoping ...

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Pls Dont Come After Me For The Dead Cat

`•.,¸¸,.•´¯ 🎀 𝒜𝓇𝓎𝓃𝒶 🎀 ¯´•.,¸¸,.•`

1 min read

He killed everything I ever cared about. My life, my job, my dog, my only friend, the list could go on. I decided enough was enough. Stop taking shit like it belongs. So I had a bad idea. Then many more bad ideas. I butchered his cat. (Poor cat, but she should’ve realized I wasn’t a cat person). Also just- saying cats don’t have nine lives. I spontaneously combusted his nepotistic existence at...

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Space Between

Memberoftheblackswan

1 min read

I wake up in a cold sweat shaking after what I saw my own death. It wasn’t painful just cruel I saw the other side it was cold, dark and a place I’m not looking forward to going if I could just get out locked up here awaiting my trial where I know I’ll be found guilty. I’m not ashamed of what I did a little guilty but just barely he deserved to die I’m just glad I helped to bad karma didn’t agree....

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The Void

`•.,¸¸,.•´¯ 🎀 𝒜𝓇𝓎𝓃𝒶 🎀 ¯´•.,¸¸,.•`

1 min read

You notice that you are a little child again. Free, floating, not a single worry pounding your head. You struggle to remember what you were doing before it. You vaguely recall a cliff’s edge, and the feeling of your heart dropping, but even those small excerpts are fading away. In another few seconds you feel like your drowning, alone, you feel like you weigh so much that its bringing you down and...

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Mystery

Dead Of Winter

𝔏𝔦𝔫𝔡𝔰𝔞𝔶 🧚🏼‍♀️

2 min read

Whichever scientist said freezing to death is the best way to go has obviously never tried it.

It’s difficult to recall all the stages to hypothermia at the moment, but I’m really looking forward the illusion of warmth part.

It’s not that I mind the hallucinations.

I’m just finding it a bit unsettling to be sitting in an almost filled hourglass of snow, you know?

Each falling flake is distinct...

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Drama

My Symphony

CarrieJ

1 min read

Yes, this is the symphony I created

My grande masterpiece.

This chorus of screams.

Their cries harmonize with my mad laughter...

Mystery

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The Edge That Smiles Back

TheNakedBumbleBee

1 min read

The high doesn’t arrive softly—

It stalks me first,

Circling like something hungry,

It’s shadow sliding beneath my skin.

Then it pounces—

a wicked surge, sharp and blinding,

whispering sweet lies in a voice that sounds like mine.

My pulse spikes like a warning alarm

I pretend I can’t hear.

Thoughts flicker and multiply,

feral, untamed, too fast to catch.

The world glows unnaturally bright—

a sta...

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M17 - GREEN BOOK

Andrew Burnside

9 min read

Mage was having a rather quiet evening back in their underground quarters alone. He had found a bottle of wine and lit his pipe as he sat around the common table reading a local tome on annual weather patterns. Of course his actual thoughts had drifted in far off directions. It was nice to let his mind wonder, away from the company of late though. And what he felt he did not take as a good omen.

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