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BY ALISA CHILDRESS Alone I am walking home from school on a dreary, cloudy day. The air smells like rain. The overcast sky always makes...

BY PATRICIA DUTT Mary waits in the hallway, in a basement reminiscent of church basements everywhere, and it could be said that The...

BY DON NOEL “Rebecca, I’m glad you’ll spend the week with me here at Harmony Acres! I hope you won’t be bored stiff, surrounded by...

BY DC DIAMONDOPOLOUS My sister Angie gives me outrageous material for my standup comedy. She’s a bona fide nut case, a paranoid...

BY JULIE A. DICKSON Why am I feeling this way? Mara Willard wondered as she smoothed the crumpled skirt she wore to school. She pulled a...

LOST IN MIND: FOUND AT HEART - MELANIE HAAGMAN https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Mind-Found-At-Heart/dp/191491354X/ Lost in Mind; Found at...

THE DEATH AND LIFE OF JOHN DOE - KASSIE J RUNYAN NOW AVAILABLE WHERE EVER BOOKS ARE SOLD AND AT KASSIEJRUNYAN.COM From best-selling poet...

THE GIFT OF POETRY - SARFRAZ AHMED The ‘Romantic Poet’ is back with a bang!! In this blistering display of poetic brilliance, he proves...

AFTER THE RAINBOW - ZANETA JOHNS After the Rainbow: Golden Poems (Prolific Pulse Press LLC 2022) is a poignant and inspiring collection...

BY JON MORAY Ryan was seventeen years old when he first learned his grandfather had spent, at that time, twenty years in a mental ward....

BY PAUL LAMB The longest day of Rimi’s life was also the shortest day of her life. It started with a software upgrade she needed to get...

BY JEFF BURT www.jeff-burt.com This may be Hanley’s last year to be vital, and not a vital statistic. She’s my granddaughter, my...

Claudette Martinez Canada #claudettemartinezartist You are enslaved. Not by chains or pistol or whip. Not by fences, nor by man. You are...

THE NIGHT COMES HEAVY Brendan S Bigney United States https://nuclearcowboy.com https://www.instagram.com/the_nuclearcowboy/...

By Teika Marija Smits The obsession changes. Sometimes it’s clear what it’s about. Like safety. No one wants their house broken into....

By Leighton Schreyer (He/Him) She drew in a breath and let it settle, holding the air and, by extension, herself in a kind of limbo as...