- "Dad. how did you ask my mother for a first date?” I looked across the small self-laid patio at my daughter, Linda, sitting on the camping chair, regarding me with her mother’s deep brown eyes. A...
By: redwriter |
Category: Memoirs |
Score: 5|
Added: 25 Nov 2019
- Once there was a little girl. This particular little girl was always curious. She was brimming with questions that spilled over in a constant babble of queries. But with each answer she was provided...
By: BBaker |
Category: Childrens |
Score: 5|
Added: 15 Jul 2019
- The good doctor bent over with an oft-practiced, child-welcoming smile. “Good to see you again,” he said to my young daughter, punny obviously intended for both of us. “It’s hard to believe that it’...
By: Ping |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 29 Oct 2018
- My hands are large, and yours are small I forget sometimes, how unsure they are In a home for adults, you make your way There are times I get angry, when you spill drink on the floor Sometimes I’...
By: sbyrne |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 28 Jun 2018
- America is where we hung, And fell in love when we were young. My youth passed fast: Windows 3.1 (1992)—Windows ’95—Windows ’98—Windows 2000 all the way to Windows 10 Pro, until my last semester o...
By: JamesFoley |
Category: Drama |
Score: 5|
Added: 13 May 2018
- “What’s that now?” I first swallowed then spat, before explaining again. “Trap the pointier edges between your upper and lower front teeth.” “Like this?” "No." I showed her again. "Like this?" ...
By: Ping |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 09 Apr 2018
- My daughter recently ran off a playful string of inarticulate sounds and noises, and then asked me if she had said anything. Did what she just say have any meaning? I informed no, and said it was ju...
By: Ping |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 11 Feb 2018
- Now despite being divorced from my first wife I stayed in contact with her and her daughters.I even offered to assist in keeping them off of each other's throats during the Summer vacation from schoo...
By: The_Count |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 19 Nov 2017
- Once upon a time before the Normans came to this land, there lived a great king who was renowned for his wisdom and love of peace and justice. Caradoc, for that, was his name, was much loved by his s...
By: Kavyansh |
Category: Romance |
Score: 5|
Added: 19 Jul 2017
- Kind and caring, sweet and fair; With gorgeous blue eyes and long flowing hair; A heart of gold, through and through; Loving to all, pure and true; My gift from God sent on angels' wings; Never que...
By: bella685 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 11 Apr 2017
- Her imagination is beautiful So precious in all she is Please don't change a thing Always wanting a hug and a kiss The stories are endless Changing every time Dancing on a big stage Or singing a...
By: tonyal |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.9|
Added: 06 Apr 2017
- My daughter recently told me that some days, her classroom is too quiet. So quiet in fact, that she cannot even think. I told her I understood, saying some people need a little background noise to h...
By: Ping |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 28 Mar 2017
- Where has the time gone You seem to change daily Growing faster each year My forever baby My precious little girl Who no longer wears bows It's time for pink or red lipstick With matching toes Dre...
By: HisAmelia |
Category: Poetry |
Added: 09 Feb 2017
- At the time of my first marriage, my youngest stepdaughter was a very pretty slender thing. She was not aggressive or a loud mouth or a fighter by any means, but it seems she became the favorite targ...
By: The_Count |
Category: Memoirs |
Score: 5|
Added: 08 Nov 2016
- My daughter up in heaven watches over me each day; I feel her all around me as I stumble along the way; When my sadness overwhelms me all I need to do, is think about her love for me and it he...
By: bella685 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 13 Oct 2016
- "This tour guide doesn't know what he's talking about. You don't need to go all the way to the student union for lunch — the coffee shop at the library is better, faster and cheaper than the cafeteri...
By: magnificent1rascal |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 16 Sep 2016
- Go to sleep my beautiful one Dream of a beautiful place Think of something lots of fun My princess with the beautiful face Mama loves her sweet girl She's the apple of my eye My girl with ...
By: mysteria27 |
Category: Poetry |
Added: 15 Sep 2016
- Up in heaven I send you a kiss Memories of your life that passed You made sure our lives were bliss Seems your life went by so fast You were so much fun You made everybody laugh You were ...
By: mysteria27 |
Category: Poetry |
Added: 18 Jun 2016
- "No candy." She glares at me, her nostrils flaring with every breath, fists clenched so tightly she’ll have fingernail marks on her palms. I'm watching an impending meltdown. Its cause? Red licori...
By: magnificent1rascal |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 23 Feb 2016
- "I'm eighteen years old and should be able to make up my own mind." Margaret stood in front of her mirror speaking out loud to herself. "If I knew what I wanted I might be able to do just that." Th...
By: chatterbox |
Category: Drama |
Score: 5|
Added: 09 Feb 2016
- Often times, the thought of inexistence crosses my mind. It’s excruciating, the things I have to go through—indeed life was the bitch that has to be dealt. There were even those mournful nights when I...
By: GenlyAryl |
Category: Drama |
Score: 0|
Added: 24 Jan 2016
- My poor daughter is not feeling well For a few weeks now she has been sick She has lost her taste and smell Hope she will feel better quick The first round of meds did not work Her throat is rea...
By: mysteria27 |
Category: Poetry |
Added: 28 Sep 2015
- Dawn placed the last dinner plate in the dish washer and looked up at the clock. She then glanced over her shoulder at her husband. Brian sat at the table, scouring the classified advertisements in...
By: JWren |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 09 Jul 2015
- It was a moment, when arguing was up a blind alley, and that remaining silent was the best way of protecting yourself. The vertically challenged lady’s friends came and helped her put the blame on me....
By: Liezl15 |
Category: Romance |
Score: 4|
Added: 09 May 2015
- The skin near my eye swelled itching in pain after the emotionless lady threaded every unwanted follicle of my eyebrows-- she didn't turn a hair every time I closed my eyes gasping in awe. Ichigo on m...
By: Liezl15 |
Category: Romance |
Score: 5|
Added: 25 Apr 2015
- “Did you know that people live because they have to know their purpose?” Dmitry sat next to me under the old Acacia tree. It was one of those trees at the back of the orphanage. There were no spect...
By: Liezl15 |
Category: Romance |
Score: 5|
Added: 21 Apr 2015
- There was a man, a man with a can. A man with a can and a plan. This man, he collected money, this man, he collected smiles, but deep inside him was fear. Fear of rejection, fear of death, fear of n...
By: Circle_Something |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 07 Apr 2015
- For a moment, when I woke up, I didn’t know where I was, or what time it was. I gritted my teeth against the pain and straightened up, blanching. I realized I was in my own room. “Sam are you, alrig...
By: Liezl15 |
Category: Romance |
Score: 5|
Added: 10 Dec 2014
- “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” --May Sarton It was typed-written on a buff-colored tissue paper. The other pieces have differ...
By: Liezl15 |
Category: Romance |
Score: 5|
Added: 08 Dec 2014
- "We won't let them call it a break down this time," She says, Wiping imagined stray hairs from my brow. I want to laugh. I want to cry. I want to scream. Medication is bliss. I wonder th...
By: AvrgBlkGrl |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 20 Jul 2014
- Standing outside the curio shop looking through the display window, Tanya watched the woman standing at the counter inside. She had sad eyes. She wondered what had happened in the woman’s life to make...
By: Sparkle |
Category: General |
Added: 11 Jul 2014
- Beep-beep-beep-beep. The other line was dead when I picked up the phone. I could still hear the busy tone playing around my ear. Akira had mentioned ‘she.’ It was the only thing I knew. It was the f...
By: Liezl15 |
Category: Romance |
Score: 5|
Added: 12 May 2014
- From the moment I could talk, She’s been the one that I call out to. From the moment I could walk, She’s been the one I go to. From the moment I could trust, She’s been the one I put m...
By: NoleGirl |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 08 May 2014
- She came into this world Dramatic and loud From the first moment I saw her I felt like I was walking on a cloud Big beautiful eyes staring at me The second she heard my voice She stopped crying Li...
By: Finallyatpeace |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 10 Apr 2014
- It hurts, I thought. I’ve always hated this. Stopping my tears from falling only hurts my throat. It’s annoying. “Heh…So you’re not really going to cry, huh?” the guy I don’t know said, grabbing ...
By: Liezl15 |
Category: Romance |
Score: 5|
Added: 07 Apr 2014
- PROLOGUE: It was a dark cold evening. There was something sinister in the air. It was uncomfortably warm. There was a girl walking in bare feet. She had bruises, even scratches, and a long black h...
By: Liezl15 |
Category: Romance |
Score: 5|
Added: 06 Apr 2014
- To my beautiful daughter, From the moment you were born you were beautiful, boisterous and had such a need for people. You walked early, talked early, and you were like a ray of sunshine in everyone'...
By: Finallyatpeace |
Category: Musings |
Score: 4.4|
Added: 12 Feb 2014
- I know that you're thirteen now, You're a beautiful young lady, Although we stand eye to eye, You'll forever be my baby, I know things are confusing, Our lives are upside down, Always keep reaching fo...
By: Poetic_Justice |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.9|
Added: 08 Dec 2013
- Hannah looked out the window of her high rise New York apartment over to Liberty Island. The Statue of Liberty was delicately lit as it stood gracefully in place, protecting citizens. The haze of the ...
By: Douglas_Daleray |
Category: Drama |
Score: 4.8|
Added: 28 Oct 2013
- Her Life in Colour Sketches and doodles. Soups and pot noodles, these are the things of her day. Artistic licence is what she most craves, doing "her stuff" in her very own way. She...
By: bri54 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 22 Apr 2013
- A chain of broken promises, slowly chiseling away at our once solid relationship. "I swear things are different this time"; words I have heard many times before. Momma, once a term of endearment, is n...
By: Cheetah |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 20 Feb 2013
- Although I never got to give you life I will love you for all my life I never got to see your first smile But your smile brightens my world I never seen you take your first step But you stepped into ...
By: wildrose_girl |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.4|
Added: 01 Nov 2012
- I imagine you have my hair. My nose. Maybe my smile. your daddy's eyes that twinkle every once in a while. I imagine you have his humour. His laugh and his chin. My heart shaped face and the colo...
By: MamboX |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 28 Nov 2011
- If you had to go on to Heaven, There is one thing I wish you took with you, and that would be your cell phone. Oh, how much you loved to talk on your phone. If you had your phone with you, I w...
By: TearsOfAnAngel |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 03 Mar 2011