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Callum Burdett

A New Start

1 min read

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

Penfold

Stop Watch

1 min read

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

BRISKET BOY

THE TURKISH LUR

1 min read

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

Lillie

The Path

3 min read

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

liss ♡

Her

1 min read

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

soup

the cat, the goat, and the girl

2 min read

A cat, a goat, and a girl walk down the hill, their footfalls synced, their breath al

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Clay

Feywild

1 min read

A wet slab of clay

Can be created into something

Of new

But what of its secrets we don’t deny

It has magic in firefly’s

The suclpeter now a firefly

Came to life

It eat

What it was told to eat

Nothing is ever safe

Even when it’s a sculpture

Of clay

(This was rushed so hope it was good, I just need a nap as well and and had a busy day)...

Poetry

Mystery

Caught

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1 min read

Note: this is a really rushed write, I plan to edit it later on!

The parts of the storyline left unknown are up to your imagination, however I plan to add more soon! Enjoy!

Never trust a survivor until you know what they did to survive.

There are words I have had yet to speak, words I have had yet to believe. Yet I must learn my lesson someday.

My wrists are bound, rope tied taut around my ...

Mystery

Train Exchange

Heather W

1 min read

“Don’t you worry about that? How much is it worth to you.”

The hooded figure closes the bag and pushes toward you.

“It’s not worth being tortured by Hela’s guardians again, that’s for sure. If I were you, I’d dump it as soon as you get off this train. This is trouble you nor I need right now.”

You push the bag back toward the hooded figure. “Since when have you ever backed away from trouble. We...

Mystery

Adventure

Little Red

Runa Winters

11 min read

Chapter 1- Once Upon A Time

“I need a red velvet pastry from the back!” my mother shouts to me. I toss my hands together, trying to shake off some of the excess flour that has crusted up as I was working. I quickly shuffle over to the sink and wash away the rest. Even in the back of the shop, I can hear the soft sounds of people speaking from the counter. I can make out the timbre of my mother's ...

Romance

Mystery

This land They Call Home

Pato

1 min read

The leaves rustled in the cold, howling, wind. The tree trunks creaked as they swayed side to side with increasing intensity. ‘They call this land home.’ Said a voice from the darkness. But it fell on deaf ears, as the forest was empty of any living souls....

Horror

Mystery

New Home (Emil)

Kitty

1 min read

It’s beautiful it really is, abandoned, a fossil of times come before, hopefully that is, I mean as beautiful of an area as I’ve found myself in I think I’d much rather be alone in it than find a small civilisation living in a long buried castle. But maybe that’s just me.

No matter that I still need a place to sleep, and hide, and exist. I need a home and this is about as lucky as I’m ever going...

Adventure

Mystery

Natural Smooth Talker

dreamflowers

4 min read

Eva pushed her thumb between her teeth, trying to stop herself from grinning too much.

Well, Rocco had always been a great support and friend to her since he transferred to her school this year, and her whole life had changed with him around. Rocco’s helped her stand up to her backspitting friends, build her confidence outside of her brother Sonny’s shadow, and learn to grow as a person as well ...

Mystery

Romance

Tomorrow’s Letter

Kimmicks

1 min read

Dear Maggie,

It’s been too long- our seasonal room has changed up to 15 times since you last came over!

I know it gets more difficult each year to part from your studies and slumber job, so no rush.

Speaking of jobs, I finally got on the waitlist for host. I had to make some changes, but your wyline here has made a good setup to feed the implant and keep the wyque flowing. My mom said she was pr...

Science fiction

Mystery

What If!

Feywild

1 min read

Whispers in the dark hallway

“We can’t tell the…?”

“I know”

“Well one is going to die…”

“No they Arnt it’s going to be ok”

“I don’t know”

“Let’s go to bed”

“Ok..”

That conversation

It’s scary

One of us is going to die

But whom will it be

I can’t decide

I don’t

Want if it’s all!

What if the world is destroyed!

What if…!

The stories they tell..

Will I be the new hero?

Or will I be the villain

Or ...

Poetry

Mystery

The Letter’s Better Left Sealed

ave_writes

3 min read

A box of treasures neatly tucked away in the back of her moms closet. A box of letters written decades ago. Love letters. Love letters from her estranged father.

“DAY 1,” the first envelope read. Listed all the way to Day 365. Some of the envelopes lay torn apart, while others remain untouched. May fumbles through the box of letters until she comes across “Day 176”. She quickly snatched the unope...

Drama

Mystery