- Stupid. Just stupid. The sun was setting; dusk hung like a cloak over the Coconino National Forest. I had a scotch pine tree on my right shoulder, my left hand held our seven-year-old daughter’s h...
By: Wordpusher715 |
Category: Memoirs |
Score: 5|
Added: 05 Jan 2019
- The Boy As the winter weather-bundled three of us patiently waited, watching the cheerful, cherubic cashier ring through my spicy rum, the older woman attempted to engage my son in some awkward...
By: Ping |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 30 Dec 2018
- A friend asked me today What did I want for Christmas? “Nothing but our continued friendship And joy for all mankind!” But tonight, back at home After having a chance to think I still want w...
By: aussie_kitty77 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 18 Dec 2018
- “Santa works at the North Pole,” the boy told his younger sister. “He lives there with Mrs. Claus, his team of elves, and his magical flying reindeer. “Wrong, big brother,” his sister replied. “Sant...
By: Ping |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 15 Dec 2018
- The beauty of Christmas is in her eyes, Sparkling and twinkling and saucer-sized. The love of Christmas is in her heart, Laughing and giggling with kind remarks. The joy of people, on this speci...
By: Wordpusher715 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 13 Dec 2018
- Well, I wrote the followin’ song for my cousin as a Christmas gift. She got kinda mad at me when I told her instead a payin’ the cemetery folk to put blankets on her mom and daddy’s grave to make ‘em...
By: rantingsenior |
Category: Songs |
Score: 5|
Added: 06 Dec 2018
- This night I write, Dear Santa Claus, Please do this for me, just because I love my fellow man this year, I see, A little bit more than presents for me. Don’t bring me presents for Christmas t...
By: Wordpusher715 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 01 Dec 2018
- Tripoli. January 29 th , 1942 Katarina opened her eyes as the loud roar of the three Junker's engines suddenly diminished to a more subdued rumble. The pilot had pulled the throttle lev...
By: AnnaMayZing |
Category: Drama |
Score: 5|
Added: 04 May 2018
- Athens. December 24 th , 1941 Life in Athens continued as normal once the furor of the attempted assassination of the SS officer had died down. News had reached Katarina that the SS ...
By: AnnaMayZing |
Category: Drama |
Score: 5|
Added: 05 Mar 2018
- A carpet of frozen snowflakes doth lie Among the grass, icy dew dissolves, The fractals, each one unique and fleeting Colours, a prism in which the light evolves A little bird, ‘gainst a thorn...
By: DannyX |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 11 Dec 2017
- As the fallen leaves swirl in the street and a northern wind blows tis the season. Once again it's the season of "brotherly love." Santa helpers ringing their bells and wishing one and all a Merry Ch...
By: fuzzy1954 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 08 Dec 2017
- Dedicated to my precious cousin, an IBS sufferer, without whom I would never have the keen appreciation that I do for my own regularity. ***An IBS Christmas*** It probably does seem myopic juxtapos...
By: rantingsenior |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.9|
Added: 20 Nov 2017
- All last year you griped and moaned while I would hide or just get stoned to make it through your constant shrill henpecking. Then you finally sneaked away the morning after Christmas day and draine...
By: rantingsenior |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 25 Oct 2017
- On the eve of Christmas day, a mother just got home from working overtime at the factory to a simple house. The dark and the silence of the house welcomes her. She sets her tired ass on the hard wood...
By: rune |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 30 Dec 2016
- 'Twas the week before Christmas, when all through the town Not a shopper was smiling, they each wore a frown; The cars they were parked in their bays willy-nilly, Whilst pedestrians dashed to-and-fro ...
By: Daisy |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 24 Dec 2016
- A man I knew of quite strange mind would rob the disabled and blind but then give to the very sick and needy. People thinking he was mad would ask “How can you do so bad?” He’d say ”It’s easy t...
By: rantingsenior |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.9|
Added: 22 Dec 2016
- Catrin ran full tilt, her bare feet kicking up sand. Gleaming in the sunlight, her long auburn hair billowed out behind her like a sheet of flames. Without breaking stride, she glanced over her should...
By: Welshdreamer42 |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 21 Dec 2016
- The last of the winter light had leached from the sky, Seven pm on the shortest day of the year; Hurrying through bustling crowds of late night shoppers, She goes, homeward bound, worried frown creasi...
By: Kavyansh |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 14 Dec 2016
- They said there would be snow for Christmas, but it just kept on raining forming a veil of tears for the virgin birth, as I see that Fir or Pine tree standing there representing a vision of Paradise. ...
By: Shotgun011 |
Category: Memoirs |
Score: 5|
Added: 13 Dec 2016
- It was nearly midnight on Christmas Eve, and Sherry was slumped in a chair in the sitting room of her small cottage, lit only by the embers of the dying fire. She was feeling totally out of sorts, fac...
By: Kavyansh |
Category: Supernatural |
Score: 5|
Added: 11 Dec 2016
- ".........minutes of the meeting of the Board of Members of the Managing Council of Santa, Elves and Reindeer Limited held at Santaland, North Pole. Dated 26th December 2014. Resolved, 1...
By: SindhuriSathiyaraj |
Category: Fantasy |
Score: 5|
Added: 17 Feb 2016
- The all-consuming flames wash over me and start a fire in my core. Although I burn, so does the air about. The blistering heat of the forge peels away the grimy layer of metal, but as I fold it, a new...
By: TheBurningWriter |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 08 Jan 2016
- All Hearts Come Home for Christmas The small window afforded little in the way of a view. Not that there was much to see; it was snowing like crazy outside. As I settled back into my seat with ...
By: musesinspire |
Category: Romance |
Score: 5|
Added: 24 Dec 2015
- Munchen.Pasing. December 24th, 1939 It had been a long day for Maria. Her shift was about to finish and she was ready for home. She was pleased, though, for tomorrow her shift was to cha...
By: AnnaMayZing |
Category: Drama |
Score: 5|
Added: 23 Dec 2015
- High in the sky, the stars shine so bright. Which one did they follow on that wonderful night? The three wise men who, from the orient came, To find a child, though they knew not his name. Wheth...
By: AnnaMayZing |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 18 Dec 2015
- Holiday Heart (Eve Gaal) Like a string of Christmas lights your life began with little cards and greetings. Godparents, grandparents and neighbors welcomed you into the world. Holid...
By: Eve |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 19 Dec 2015
- Berlin December 24th, 1939 Christmas Eve. Katarina was at home with her parents. It was Sunday, but as was often the case she would be working. She never minded working at Christmas. She...
By: AnnaMayZing |
Category: Drama |
Score: 5|
Added: 14 Dec 2015
- The apparition was angry. “Stop saying that! I am not the Ghost of Christmases Past! I am the Ghost of Christmas Sideways! I show you how past Christmases and the rest of your life might have been ...
By: rantingsenior |
Category: Humor |
Score: 5|
Added: 14 Dec 2015
- Children are so excited for Christmas Day The countdown has officially started Santa will be embarking on his sleigh The children hope Santa is bighearted Are they on the naughty or nice list The...
By: mysteria27 |
Category: Poetry |
Added: 11 Dec 2015
- Christmas time brings all that’s fine, this wish I bring to you. Happiness in all you seek and love the whole year through. Strength to help you through the roughest times and light to guide your way...
By: HappyIdiot |
Category: Songs |
Score: 5|
Added: 08 Dec 2015
- Ah, the start of the holiday season. It brings with it the endless invitations to gatherings at the houses of friends and family. Now I was never a real big fan of these parties, and it's not for the...
By: The_Count |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 05 Dec 2015
- The Christmas tree was up by the first weekend in December and fully decorated by Sunday night, just before prime-time TV, but all feelings of accomplishment faded when Renfield the cat jumped headlo...
By: verbal |
Category: Drama |
Score: 4.8|
Added: 21 Jul 2015
- It was now Christmas Day and both families were up at their normal workday time instead of sleeping. They wanted to enjoy a leisurely breakfast, while they discussed the plans of the day, before they ...
By: The_Count |
Category: Young Adult |
Score: 5|
Added: 22 Apr 2015
- She awoke ecstatic to see us after rushing to the hospital from our Christmas cruise. The e-mails were candid, ‘Mom in hospital. Home can’t deal with outbursts and rudeness!’ This was inevitable aft...
By: cjandrew5051 |
Category: Memoirs |
Score: 4.7|
Added: 14 Jan 2015
- "It’s not what it looks like," he said. "I’m not pushing. You’re the one pushing." "Am not." "Are too." "Leave me alone. This side is mine. Stay on your side." "I’m not on your side. Now I...
By: elof69 |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 4.6|
Added: 14 Jan 2015
- He woke up ecstatic. Today, Christmas Eve, was the day Johnny and his friend, Steven, were testing their new invention: Missile Boots. "You're sure these have been fully calibrated?" Johnny asked, l...
By: Cricket |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 4.7|
Added: 01 Jan 2015
- Christmas time has come around once more. People were flooding stores buying up whatever gifts they could before time ran out. Houses were decked in lights and all sorts of inflatable Santas, snowmen,...
By: TRacr14 |
Category: Drama |
Score: 5|
Added: 25 Dec 2014
- She woke up ecstatic to complete the scrapbook she was making for Angel, her boyfriend. She had painted the pages, pasted pictures, the only thing left was to fill in words. Her mind was blank as sh...
By: azuma |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 4.5|
Added: 25 Dec 2014
- For the past few years, I was a ne’er do well. I was the one kid from the Houston ghettoes that would throw illegal raves, steal cars, run a couple meth labs, run drugs to Mexico and saw the inside of...
By: ladysharon |
Category: General |
Score: 4.3|
Added: 21 Dec 2014
- "It's not what it looks like," she said. The girl’s parents stared in horror at what had, the night before, been a festive and lovingly arranged assortment of gifts under the tree. "But...but w...
By: SydneyLeigh |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 19 Dec 2014
- The Christmas present ticked me off! After twenty years of friendship, he knew how I felt about presents and Christmas. The wondrous ideal of love, family and religious worship, that Christmas is, w...
By: rolandlytle |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 18 Dec 2014
- The Christmas present ticked to an abrupt stop at the bottom of the stairs. It was the pink electric drum set she wanted so bad. "Why would you do that Stephanie?!" her mother wailed. "All I asked...
By: BestAbsolutePerfect |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 4.7|
Added: 14 Dec 2014
- “You cannot be me from the future!” I shouted. “That is just not possible! Besides… you’re old and ugly!” “Deal with it!” the old man replied. “I am future you! And I can prove it.” “How?” “By t...
By: rantingsenior |
Category: Humor |
Score: 4.9|
Added: 14 Dec 2014
- The Christmas present ticked ominously from under the tree. Sam glanced at it suspiciously. She remembered the argument she had from the day before and sighed heavily. It was always something. She gla...
By: sallyslayer |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 4.8|
Added: 14 Dec 2014
- You want what? It was Christmas Eve 1996, daddy was back from the war in Vietnam. It had been a long year with daddy gone. Everyone was so excited about Christmas. We all bundled up and everyone ...
By: Cheryl |
Category: Childrens |
Score: 5|
Added: 14 Dec 2014
- “Are you elfing nuts? You can’t go on strike!” hollered Santa. Yes, there were times when the ‘Big Guy’ bellowed, or even screamed. Like the time Blitzen accidently stepped on his big toe – the one w...
By: DiVitto |
Category: Humor |
Score: 4.9|
Added: 12 Dec 2014
- The Christmas present ticked and would open soon. They've chosen one out of billions annually since the Code was deciphered because its power must be limited. They placed the box in my home on Christm...
By: Elliotlacey31 |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 10 Dec 2014
- He woke up ecstatic, he felt so wonderful! He wasn't going to have that same old boring Christmas dinner with his parents. No, he was going to buy HER, that beauty he brought home, a fancy dinner. ...
By: paulus |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 11 Dec 2014
- All the Christmas stories the children are learning As the Christmas candle is burning. The stories are being told by grandparents and parents alike Sitting by the candle light. Oh so ...
By: poetlou |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 0|
Added: 09 Dec 2014
- "You got what for my mother?" "A vibrator." "Why?" "She was complaining about her sore feet." "So you bought her a vibrator?" "I was trying to help!" The wife chased her husband out of the house...
By: Circle_Something |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 4.7|
Added: 09 Dec 2014
- Not guilty, your honor. It was not I who broke into the Martins houshold. I was not the one who stole the flatscreen in the living area. It was not me who broke down their seven foot tree. I did not s...
By: TRacr14 |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 4.8|
Added: 09 Dec 2014
- "It's not what it looks like," he said as I walked in. Ever since I was little I’d wanted to meet Santa, but silently sneaking down the stairs on Christmas Eve to find him standing over my father’s ...
By: Liz |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 10 Dec 2014
- She woke up ecstatic thinking today’s the day; full of nervous energy she rolls out of bed and heads for a hot shower. Once finished she walks back to her bedroom, dressing in the beautiful flowing...
By: aussie_kitty77 |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 4.7|
Added: 09 Dec 2014
- When I was growing up, Christmas used to be a magical time to me. I was raised a catholic and we went to church every Sunday. Christmas then however, was more than just religious. It was a true family...
By: paulus |
Category: Musings |
Score: 4.8|
Added: 08 Dec 2014
- Chapter Eighteen: Christmas On Christmas day the mansion was transformed in a spectrum of colors that rose from the ground and covered the walls, ceiling and everything inside the mansion. Everythi...
By: Starfallfantasy |
Category: Fantasy |
Score: 0|
Added: 22 Nov 2014
- I came to live with this family in 1988, when they moved across the country, leaving family and friends behind in search of a new beginning and a better life. I was already here in California, waiting...
By: frogprince |
Category: Musings |
Score: 4.9|
Added: 01 Jan 2014
- To heck with “Toys for Tots!” Instead think “Toys for Tottlers!” Because tottlers (seniors who walk unsteadily and just tottle along for whatever the reason) are much needier than kids. Their friends ...
By: rantingsenior |
Category: Musings |
Score: 4.8|
Added: 20 Dec 2013
- "She seems quite taken with you," Nadja said. Nadja was one of the senior supervisors of the library. We often had lunch together and we talked about pretty much anything. Today, she caught me off ...
By: Paperboy |
Category: Romance |
Score: 5|
Added: 18 Nov 2013
- I checked my watch. I had been waiting for her for almost 20 minutes. I grinned and chuckled to myself. No, I'd been waiting longer. I leaned against the railing overlooking the square. The air was ...
By: Paperboy |
Category: Romance |
Score: 5|
Added: 15 Nov 2013
- This story only available on Stories Space. If you are reading it elsewhere, it has been stolen. Once upon a time, there was a little Christmas fairy. She was a beautiful little Christmas fairy! He...
By: Daisy |
Category: Childrens |
Score: 5|
Added: 07 Nov 2013
- My most vivid memory of my evening with Prancer is not his admission that he was a murderer. Though unnerving it was consistent with his obvious paranoia. The most vivid memories are of what happened ...
By: rantingsenior |
Category: Humor |
Score: 5|
Added: 06 Nov 2013
- The pines are hanging low Weighted by the new fallen snow It looks as though the clouds Have fallen to the ground below The white replaces the green Making a winter wonderland scene And the woodland ...
By: youngmommy |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 13 Jan 2013
- 12/01/10 new Children around the world waiting for Christmas day So many letters to Santa, with so many things to say. Asking for every toy ever known to man And all his little elves giving ...
By: poetlou |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.6|
Added: 23 Dec 2012
- While there are many disturbing memories of Vietnam, there is one surprisingly excellent memory - Christmas morning. The confusion, laughter, and joy that I created for eleven very homesick young men ...
By: bear_hug_giver |
Category: Memoirs |
Score: 5|
Added: 23 Dec 2012
- this is a new one (12/22/12) It was Christmas eve and last minute Shoppers were running frantically. As I walked out my front door What to my astonishment and surprise A little boy sittin...
By: poetlou |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 22 Dec 2012
- this is one of my favs that i've written Christmas spirit (11/4/12) I hear the birds up in the tree tops sing I hear the bells in the church steeples ring I see the squirrels run around wi...
By: poetlou |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 20 Dec 2012
- Rainy days are not any fun. Sam and his little brother Jim knew this all too well. The constant rain for the past week forced the two boys to resort to other means of entertainment. Both of the bo...
By: OldTexasWriter |
Category: Drama |
Score: 0|
Added: 12 Dec 2012
- How do we not know what Christmas is all about When we create so many excuses and doubts. God had given us his only begotten son ... Given to Mary , for she was the chosen one. He came to this earth ...
By: poetlou |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4|
Added: 08 Dec 2012
- Have you ever seen a "Snowy White Christmas”? I did one time and I did not like it at all. It was so very cold, my nose and ears almost froze! I honestly do not care, about the Christma...
By: Isadora |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 04 Dec 2012
- Scurrying crowds beat down on the pavements And screaming children bicker with their frustrated adults, Strangers to each other in this season of enforced cheer. Blue-white light strings buzz above t...
By: Daisy |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 04 Dec 2012
- “Daddy, he is soooooooo beautiful!” my eight-year-old daughter Susie cooed. He was. The magnificent white unicorn was on his hind legs. His long mane was flowing, embedded diamonds in his horn twink...
By: rantingsenior |
Category: Science Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 04 Dec 2012
- PART ONE Naomi sat, staring out of the city bus window. She held two large, brown shopping bags on her lap. The bus was not really crowded, but she did not feel at ease. Looking out the window was he...
By: OldTexasWriter |
Category: Drama |
Score: 5|
Added: 04 Dec 2012
- He gave me quite a whack after I grabbed his bulging sack! (Santa left his toy bag on the floor.) IF THESE OPENING LINES EVOKE A SMILE (or better a guffaw) PLEASE CONSIDER READING THE REST OF THIS...
By: rantingsenior |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 01 Dec 2012
- Christmas Far from Home PART ONE A cold wind swept the dirt street sending clouds of dust into the air. A few pedestrians scurried along the worn paths between the ruined buildings. Anxiety m...
By: OldTexasWriter |
Category: Drama |
Score: 4.2|
Added: 30 Nov 2012
- Sam trudged along the now familiar path around the storage area. Two hundred paces along the fence line, one hundred paces to the corner of the first building, two hundred fifty paces along the back o...
By: OldTexasWriter |
Category: Drama |
Score: 3.5|
Added: 29 Nov 2012
- PART ONE It’s that time again, that time again--that time between mid-November and the end of December. Yes, it is that time again, when everywhere you look, everywhere you go, you are reminded that...
By: OldTexasWriter |
Category: Drama |
Score: 5|
Added: 28 Nov 2012
- They had the kind of love everybody wished to have. It was the kind where words unspoken between them told on their faces. One look and they knew what each other was thinking. Acelynn met Jagger when...
By: Douglas_Daleray |
Category: Romance |
Score: 2.6|
Added: 22 Oct 2012
- Becky Patterson arrived at the coffee shop short of breath after hurrying from the only parking spot she'd been able to find, five blocks away. Her hair disheveled and face rosy from the brisk walk, s...
By: magnificent1rascal |
Category: General |
Score: 5|
Added: 18 Jul 2012
- The Thanksgiving holiday has come and gone in a blink of an eye. The Monday after the days of turkey and tryptophan, I walk into an office that’s awash with every decoration of the festive Christmas h...
By: ladysharon |
Category: Drama |
Score: 4.3|
Added: 21 Dec 2011
- Ooh ooh bugaloo I got to do some cooking And you have too. Ooh ooh bugaloo Stockings hanging For presents from who? Ooh ooh, bugaloo Somethings burning And its not cooked through. Oo...
By: courage2bfree |
Category: Songs |
Score: 3.5|
Added: 21 Dec 2011
- Christmas isn't the same anymore...it hasn't been the same in a long time. But this year...something about this year that was just so...terrifying, awful, disappointing. The house outside doesn't li...
By: Patrick |
Category: Musings |
Score: 4.4|
Added: 19 Dec 2011
- He found her in the kitchen talking to the broccoli, leaving the carrots whispering to one another. In the far corner he noticed some newly arrived brussels sprouts, huddled together, nervously...
By: mj51 |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 19 Dec 2011
- It’s time to stop being cute and coy and simply wish you Christmas joy because the day is rapidly approaching. May you smile at all the lights that brighten up the winter nights and I’ll stop be...
By: rantingsenior |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 17 Dec 2011
- Running through Their house to the front door Theo and Rowan excited from hanging decorations, come to me shouting see what I have done! Love swelling From my heart I look wi...
By: courage2bfree |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.7|
Added: 16 Dec 2011
- Spectacular is the only word that can describe the view from the plane window flying into Jackson Hole, Wyoming. One gets fearful as the Grand Tetons appear as though they will scrape the bottom of th...
By: Jackson_Banks |
Category: Humor |
Score: 5|
Added: 14 Dec 2011
- Overview Credible Christmas historians have long known that the North Pole was not always a child-friendly place. This was evident in the early 1950’s, when resentment over impossible Christmas Ev...
By: rantingsenior |
Category: Humor |
Score: 5|
Added: 09 Dec 2011
- Christmas Poem © Copyright 2011 Autumn Writer Silent forest, leafless trees in frozen night in darkness shadows rise and come to life—black brigades, pointed arms, reach out to barricade the S...
By: AutumnWriter |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.7|
Added: 05 Dec 2011
- “Pwesent!,” my daughter shouted. “Pwesent!” “I’m sorry,” the elfin voiced on the telephone said. “I didn’t understand that. If you want a present for yourself from Santa, say ‘Present.’ If you want ...
By: rantingsenior |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 4.5|
Added: 03 Dec 2011
- “Should I start just before I shot Mr. Potato Head in the face?” I asked. “No,” Callahan replied. “Pick it up earlier than that.” “When I discovered that Santa Claus was Amish?” I asked. “Before...
By: rantingsenior |
Category: Fantasy |
Score: 4.8|
Added: 01 Dec 2011
- The Christmas holiday season has always been a memorable time of year. Whether it is time spent with family, those special gifts from a loved one, or simply the smell of Grandma's cooking, every Chris...
By: DirtyMartini |
Category: Romance |
Score: 4.9|
Added: 20 Dec 2010