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Callum Burdett

A New Start

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

Bertie

A Bit Cross

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He dried the same mug three times. The rough surface tea towel rasped over the porce

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The day I turned 18

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The day I turned 18, sweet sunny, summer day! Was I by forest’s edge, kept saying I’m

SamanthaSwears

Photos

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

Penfold

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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Letter to you

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Birds cirlced overhead, swarming in the night sky before scattering away like pollen

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Within The Ice

Cowardly Azazel

1 min read

There was no feeling. No feeling in any of my limbs, I just simply was. For the longest time, I had been stuck, trapped in this hell. I don’t remember a time before I was here. Maybe I had wanted to be in this place, this ship, at some point. I know i’m wearing some sort of suit, as is the man in front of me. I don’t remember his name, if he ever had one. All of my memories had melted to time. All...

Horror

Science fiction

Ally

1 min read

How have I lived in the past before meeting you?

I was happy- yes, though I am always happier with you. You have never left my mind, the stress of you not being on my side kills me slowly.

Please just come back. I really want to make it work...

Not to be dramatic but…

The Stranger

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Did you even know the same hands

that sculpted the sun sculpted my

heart?

They build things untouchable

so that they may never fall apart.

But they forget their creations in

the blink of an eye,

because the world has betrayed

them and left them blind

to the beauty of their own art.

Not to call my heart beautiful,

but isn’t it?

And isn’t yours?

Made out of clay, or

whatever scientists call it.

In t...

Poetry

the waiting pool

F.E. Sky

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I hadn’t meant to find myself here. In fact it was the last place on earth I wanted to be. Staring at myself in the reflection of the pool I wondered. what step did i take to lead me down this road? what mistake brought me to this?

“do you know what this place is” amy whispered.

I nod my head but say nothing. To speak in this place feels wrong. The place where the world’s secrets hide. Where the b...

We call this “finding yourself.”

The Stranger

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Longing is a clever ghost.

I’ve made a home in this shallow grave.

God—my eyes feast on silence.

Do you dissolve there too?

I’ve never floated

so heavily through

a sky that forgot its blue....

Poetry

Pulled Together, Pushed Apart

Sage_Heart

1 min read

“I love you,” Luna whispered.

“WHAT?!” I wipped my head around to look at her. I may have ruined the picture, but what did Luna say?

“I love you, Quinn!” Luna said with tears welling in her eyes.

“I… I love you too,” I blushed.

“I have loved you since we met,” Luna said.

“Why are you telling me now?” I asked

“Because, I moving away this weekend,” Luna’s eyes were glassy as her tears dared to f...

Poetry

Romance

Feeling Fiction

Aylin Beckett

1 min read

Scents of new and old

Smooth caress across, behind

Heaviness Unfolds

Adventure awaits

Mysterious, Magical

Past, present, future

Running away, I’m

Escaping Reality

Diving into worlds...

Poetry

Adventure

Relapse

I Eat Kids

1 min read

Congratulations you’re clean

But you never are, are you?

Never holding back from a though to cut

Or an urge to do it once more.

The longer you wait the faster the clock ticks

Ringing when you’ll relapse.

The fate of stopping never crosses your path

Just the image of being able to,

but not wanting to.

Being clean is just a mindset right?

Relapse until it’s right.

Relapse until you’re clean.

Relaps...

Poetry

Ash Ryder

Grace Jimenez

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Ash's motivation for not wanting to remember his past is complex and multi-layered, even though he isn't consciously aware of all these reasons at the beginning of the story:

On a surface level, Ash has constructed a functional, comfortable life as a bartender. The neural blocks implanted by The Elites program have created a psychological barrier where his mind actively resists confronting inconsi...

Fantasy

Action

The Cliff

presthepoet

1 min read

I wish I had never let go, I thought for what was probably the thousandth time since that moment. Cliff diving had seemed but a spur of the moment activity. Like a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. If I only knew I would’ve lost my best friend, my other half, my missing piece. She was ecstatic on the drive up the rocky mountain. Her knees eagerly bumped mine, her grin in sync with the tunes floating a...

Poetry

Horror