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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

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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

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

Lillie

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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the cat, the goat, and the girl

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

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The Purple Potion

Passionate Cook

1 min read

You have cast a spell on me. My thoughts are cloudy around the purple potion you are dragging to me. A floating rainbow of only purple in the fields of withering away flowers on an empty field. Where the sky is gray I see you under my umbrella. My colour matches yours. A distant sight yet so close. The sparkling magic in front of my eyes. With a light at the end drawing me closer and closer to you...

Mystery

Unknown Parts

Mai

1 min read

She has taken a few steps as the ice beneath her feet tapped in rhythms of promise and unpromised of breaking through. A sudden frost quake echoes howling through the busy wind as she looks around, one step *BOOOMM* she falls into a frozen of time Swifty the currents beneath the ice rush her to the deep dark bottom, suddenly a bright light glows below what is known as the unknown!...

Adventure

Mystery

Fog

K.M. Blackwood

1 min read

Fog is misunderstood

Judged only by it’s appearance

Many people say that it’s scary

Cold

Dark

I believe the opposite

I think fog is beautiful

Fog stretches and blurs the sunrise in a beautiful canvas of color

Fog allow you to feel lost

Like your in an enchanted forest

Fog is like a magic cloak

It shields you from the outside world

For when you allow yourself to get lost in the fog ...

Poetry

Mystery

Relief From The Phantoms

Nicholas Denney

3 min read

Chan tries to wipe off the mud caked over his face, soaked in by the blood from the abandon blast of a land mine going off a few minute ago. The blood was thankfully not his. A wild boar had chased him a bit in the forest that had given him the sensation of tight chest pains. His breath was deep and shallow, hard to stay awake. Of the war didn’t take his life, neather would nature itself. “I’ve be...

Mystery

Drama

Acceptance

Spades

1 min read

Fog. What a misunderstood phenomenon. Always scary, always evil, always hiding something bad. But that's not true, is it?

I know fog. I am, in many ways, more like fog than I am human. I, too, know what it's like to be misunderstood.

People look at me and think scary, evil. Bad. People see danger. But I'm not more dangerous than fog itself.

Is it fair, to blame someone because of how others might ...

Mystery

short letter

lucia

1 min read

I'm sorry.

If you're reading this, I'm dead.

I should've told you sooner.

I shouldn't have told you so late either.

But alas, we can never escape fate. And nor can we escape reality.

Don't listen to the voices. They're lying to you. You cannot trust a single soul, with your mind, your heart, or you're trust.

The only way out is to listen to the wind....

Mystery

Thriller

Fly

Birdspirit……..aka Linda

1 min read

They decided that they needed, another small airport there

Searched all the island over, and couldn’t find a spot bare

Some came from, all over the world to decide their fate

Others drove around, looking at the mansion’s estate

Then came the group, that traveled from the farthest part

Building this perfect airfield, wouldn’t break their heart

So they started to cut and dig, and clean out the ...

Poetry

Mystery

Etched On A Stone

Sage_Heart

1 min read

It’s Mom’s birthday today!

I stopped at the red light, and hum along to _Pink Skies by Zach Brian. _That was her favorite song.

“Gosh, I can’t cry right now!” I feel water drip down my face.

The light turns green and I continue to drive, I listen to my mother’s playlist and try not to cry. If only I told her to move!

I walk around as I feel the sun beam down on me. I find her grave covered in...

Mystery

Drama

Matchstick

dreamflowers

1 min read

Raina,

I shouldn’t have fallen in love with you.

It’s been a week since the incident, and all I can think about it how much your friends miss you. How ignorant and stupid it was for me to let you out of my grasp, and I kick myself everyday for watching your body crisp and shrivel around the fire of my guilt. My mother’s house I had dropped a matchstick in, and let everything I’ve ever regrette...

Poetry

Mystery

Mana<3

1 min read

They were the epitome of our life.

They hunted us, tormenting us with letter after letter all addressed by the same person, with the same signature, style, and message. They wanted power, control, and revenge.

The wind blew at the windows, a thunderstorm evident. A bang at the window once then twice.

My head weeps to my window, right by my bed, the covered by the curtains, the tree allomanatin...

Mystery