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Wolfer Diggs…A Thanksgiving Story

November 4, 2016November 4, 2016 Will Starr 2536 Views 4 Comments barn, blizzard, fiction, missing girl, Will Starr, Wolfer Diggs

Wolfer Diggs “We didn’t find nothin’, Hiram.” Joe Grissom had been sheriff since territorial days, because he kept the peace

Fiction Short Story

Father Rivera

October 31, 2016October 31, 2016 Will Starr 2397 Views 6 Comments boots, cattle buyer, cowhand, fantasmas, fiction, Tucson

When Gibbs wasn’t talking, he was singing … They left me to die. I was on my way to Tucson

Fiction Short Story

Rose, A Roland Short Story

October 29, 2016January 3, 2017 Ronnie Sowell 3390 Views 13 Comments cowboys, gunslinger, indian, Marshal, short story, Texas Ranger

The creek was low, only two or three inches of water standing in some places. Her horse walked through the

Fiction Halloween Short Story

The Shortcut – A Halloween Story

October 28, 2016August 30, 2017 Will Starr 3254 Views 12 Comments cemetery, downpour, grave, rainy, RV park, short story

The Cemetery It’s getting close to Halloween again, and as always, the horrible memory of that long ago night

Fiction Short Story

For the Love of a Friend

October 28, 2016October 28, 2016 Will Starr 2704 Views 12 Comments detective, drug dealer, fiction, friend, funeral, Percocet

For the Love of a Friend The dusting of hard, cold sleet found its way down his collar, but

Fiction Short Story

Her Name Is Nicole

October 27, 2016October 27, 2016 Ronnie Sowell 2565 Views 10 Comments child abuse, child protection, cops, Police, police work, seventies, short story

Child Protective Services … “How old?” Detective Carl Hardin thought he heard the woman from Child Protective Services correctly,

Halloween Memoir

Darkest Halloween Night Ever

October 25, 2016August 30, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 4252 Views 9 Comments darkest Halloween, empty field, halloween, so scared, swamp, Tacoma Washington, trick-or-treat

Darkest Halloween … The darkest Halloween night I can remember was when we lived in Tacoma, Washington. We lived

Fiction Short Story

The Curse of the Brunswick Springs

October 24, 2016October 24, 2016 EdF 4921 Views 7 Comments Abenaki Indians, Briunswick springs, Curse, healing, legends, short story

Brunswick Springs

Memoir

My Menagerie

October 23, 2016October 24, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2252 Views 6 Comments home, love, memoir, menagerie, Pets, slaves

Beast and Bok Bok We lived alone, myself and Beast, my rather rotund ginger tabby with a heart of gold.

Fiction Short Story

The Call

October 23, 2016October 23, 2016 Will Starr 3058 Views 5 Comments Christmas, faint ringing, farm, short story, snowing, telephone

The faint ringing began … The front window’s pane was rimmed in feathery ice as she gazed out

Fiction Short Story

Rye Whitaker

October 22, 2016October 22, 2016 Will Starr 3309 Views 10 Comments fiction, gold nuggets, railroad, railroad crew, short story

The Railroad He heard the thumping and whimpering again, and buried his head in his arms, in a vain

Memoir

Silence: The Source and Meaning of Silence in Nature

October 19, 2016October 19, 2016 Chris Mills 4881 Views 5 Comments fear, predator, prey, silence, terror

Silence in Nature Peace and quiet. We link the two quite often, don’t we? But sometimes, silence means danger is

Poetry Song Lyrics

Memories of Our Yesterdays

October 18, 2016October 18, 2016 Rasma Raisters 3612 Views 8 Comments golden dreams, love, poems, songs, yesterdays

Yesterday has come and gone, the years have flown. If

Memoir Poetry

A Writer’s Creeping Age

October 16, 2016October 16, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2214 Views 6 Comments age, creeping, poem, purpose, words, writer

Age, like the flow of sin upon skin, imparts its wrath, and at some point unrecognised I am, skin

Memoir Poetry Rhyming Verse

Naked Lady Belladonna

October 15, 2016January 17, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2867 Views 4 Comments belladonna, flower, memoir, naked lady, poetry

Naked Lady Belladonna Belladonna the naked lady Does stand there in all her glory. She so prefers to be shady,

Creative Writing Short Story

Nightly Haunting on Kingsley Hills – Part two of two

October 13, 2016August 30, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2204 Views 6 Comments case re-opened, demons, disappearance, Haunting, New York, short story

Case re-opened … Jackson Kingsley motioned Detective Finney back inside from the terrace. As he began refreshing their drinks, he

Creative Writing Short Story

Nightly Haunting on Kingsley Hills – Part one of Two

October 12, 2016August 30, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2667 Views 2 Comments apartments, demons, evil, fiction, nightly haunting, sanatorium

Nightly Haunting … Nightly haunting is still reported by some people in parts of the building. The old sanatorium

Memoir

Falling, Yet No Bottom Reached

October 11, 2016October 19, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1567 Views 4 Comments bottom, dream, end, falling, fear, poem

The bottom never reached… Falling faster and faster, weightless in rushing frantic air, and impending that collision, that hard ground

Fiction Short Story

The Seer

October 10, 2016October 13, 2016 Will Starr 3215 Views 2 Comments bungalow, jay, nature, seer, visions

She had always been terrified of ghosts. … There. She saw it again! The small table overlooking the

Memoir Poetry Rhyming Verse Travelogue

The Harbour City Beckons

October 9, 2016February 4, 2017 John Hansen 3516 Views 12 Comments Harbour Bridge, Harbour City, Opera House, road trip, Sydney

Harbour City Inspiration for This Poem Earlier in the year my wife Kathy and I decided to go on a

Fiction Short Story

Big Noble

October 8, 2016October 9, 2016 Will Starr 3179 Views 9 Comments Big Noble, carving, old shack, short story, Will Starr, wooden toys

Big Noble … Ma never much cottoned to me hanging around with Big Noble but I done it anyway

Fiction Short Story

Cletus Rawlins

October 7, 2016October 7, 2016 Will Starr 4397 Views 23 Comments cabin, Cletus Rawlins, Daughter, horse, short story, wildlife, Will Starr

It was a small figure slowly leading a horse … He hadn’t shaved in a month because he saw no

Memoir Poetry Rhyming Verse

My Journey Unexplained

October 7, 2016January 17, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1897 Views 4 Comments experience, journey, message, poem, questioning, unexplained

Shapes like diaphanous mist, form and deform like consciousness aligning, and light proliferates in woven intensity, its humming groan an