- From the far side of the street, Nathan could see that the living room light of his apartment was on, but when he had left for work it had been quite bright so he knew that he had not accidentally le...
By: actung |
Category: General |
Score: 5|
Added: 26 Dec 2020
- Not knowing you was the best decision I should have made But my universe and destiny both conspired so that our paths would someday meet. The pull you have for me is so strong. So strong that r...
By: FrustratedSpeaker |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 19 Aug 2020
- "A Dark Matter" (Raanana, October 4, 2018) I see you everywhere I go You follow me even into the bedroom And crawl into bed beside me Entering my dreams. You are the dark sun shining your dark photo...
By: MikeStone |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 21 Jul 2019
- I was awake at 4am (after dreaming of panicking), worrying about going to Painsburys for 7am (when it tends to be quiet), when it occurred to me that Stressco might already be open! It was, and so I ...
By: Daisy |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 16 Jan 2017
- Images flash in my mind Memories play back Like an invasive parasite Forcing the reliving Of moments best forgotten Old demons are laughing at me When love fades away And the darkness prevail...
By: JätteskogFrejyason |
Category: Songs |
Score: 5|
Added: 25 Nov 2016
- The way is clear, t he path is bright; Illuminated by God's heaven ly light; It's on this path I daily walk; When God and I share a talk; I seek His guidance in every way; Before I...
By: bella685 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 17 Oct 2016
- Inspired by a posted in the forums by Bella85 Tomorrow's light, Brings another day. Tears may fall, And darkness display. Truth be known, We're all made of clay. Hardened by fire, Glazed by ...
By: CKAcres |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 05 Oct 2016
- This hurts Again I wish it were gone It hurts again No matter how long I thought it was better But it’s bested me Unable to hide It tracks when I flee Focus on something Seal off the pain W...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 10 Jul 2016
- When my world is darker than I can understand. When my sky turns gray with no light in sight. When nothing turns out the way, I've planned. When I can’t sleep at all, through the lonely night. I tu...
By: CKAcres |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 29 May 2016
- I'm a sinner lost in a storm Needing to find myself there I lost my innocence years ago My screams fell into nowhere Out of the darkness you came Shining your light upon me You saw what others saw ...
By: HisAmelia |
Category: Poetry |
Added: 06 Apr 2016
- When one stands in the sunshine, the world around is always bright. It is easy to see creatures at play, enjoying beauty in nature's light. Things are visible and unwrapped, though some can hide ...
By: CKAcres |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 15 Feb 2016
- Moonlight edged through the tree branches high overhead, as the wind howled through them bringing a sharp cold slap to her face. Darkness seeped under the canopy far above, shrouding the world in shad...
By: Rebellious_Soul |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 4.8|
Added: 14 Jan 2016
- The clink of glass, followed by a dull thud, sends my mind swimming towards consciousness. Muffled voices pierce the swirling mists of sleep, and my eyelids flutter open. It’s grown dark while I sle...
By: Welshdreamer42 |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 4.9|
Added: 31 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
- An older woman Reading on the light rail, In her purse, a bottle of water With these words on the label, "Source of an Epic Life." I shift my gaze back out the window, And face
By: TheGreatValette |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 24 Nov 2015
- In his hand I saw the gun Black and shiny bright It was a pistol, very small It gleamed from the street light The gun was pretty as it shone Pretty, black and cold I heard as words were said to me A...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 26 Jul 2015
- The little thing crawls on the forest floor. It wraps itself within the jungle, Cloaked by the creepers. The skin ripples over its ribs As breath sighs from its mouth. A cocoon of darkn...
By: Ididntdoit |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4|
Added: 11 May 2015
- Come sit with me, said the spider to the fly. Daylight's gone, moonbeams grace the sky. Glitter from the stars are captured in my web. Breaking night's darkness as sunbeams ebb. Visit for awhil...
By: CKAcres |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 19 Feb 2015
- Darkness. Embedded in the shadow. Shadow. Comes with the light. Its cold outside Even though the sun shines. Its colder inside I'm suffocating with my plight. No one knows How much they can endure, ...
By: azuma |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 31 Jan 2015
- Without it you can't see No living thing can be No plant would ever grow No river'd ever flow This planet would be bare Just stillness everywhere A dark and empty place With nothing to embrace No sorr...
By: paulus |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 20 Dec 2014
- Brown hair Brown eyes Just like any other person Just like everyone else But they're wrong What is that on the inside? Bright light swirling Sparks of flames around the heart The light...
By: Ladybug |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 01 Sep 2014
- You are my angel You are my queen You are my best friend You are my joy You are my pride You are my soul You are my heart beat You are my light You are the beautiful flower You are m...
By: CaptNick |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 03 Jun 2014
- I can not stay here, caught between dark and light I want the sun, to feel its heat on my skin. I fears its burn though and dont trust it, sunlight fades to easily. Its so hard to be near the light ...
By: Kayk |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 30 May 2014
- This poem only available on Stories Space. If you are reading it elsewhere, it has been stolen. Red velvet kindness wraps my heart And heats my sodden spirit. Limp, bedraggled soul of mine, Grow w...
By: Daisy |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 06 Nov 2013
- I am the dark and spooky woods. Oh, please, don’t be afraid. Just because you see overhanging branches and tangled brambles, darkness and no way out, it doesn’t mean I’m going to hurt you. I really do...
By: Circle_Something |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 4.3|
Added: 01 Nov 2013
- Sometimes the most brilliant colors are visible, just before darkness blocks the sun. If one waits, the night sky comes alive, with the sparkle from millions of stars. Brandishing flickers, ...
By: CKAcres |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 11 Sep 2013
- Chapter 36 Unseen Dangers What are we looking for? Where would they be? I touch the rock sticking out of the side of the pit. The compound of the rock comes back to me as silicone-based plus t...
By: GriffinGarcon |
Category: Science Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 29 Aug 2013
- The bone chilling wind blew across the field into the barren city. Dense, dark clouds shrouded the sky above, threatening a heavy downpour. The only glimmer of light was from the misty orange hue of t...
By: Rebellious_Soul |
Category: Supernatural |
Score: 5|
Added: 23 Aug 2013
- This poem only available on Stories Space. If you are reading it elsewhere, it has been stolen. Light puddles on the floor, Crawling along the wooden slats And bleeding down the cracks To nowhere a...
By: Daisy |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 13 Aug 2013
- Heaven's angels can wait. I know now- I'm not ready to die yet. I know I'm bleeding out, but how did my wrists get slit? It's all over me... The blood is... it is everywhere. All around me- shal...
By: Colors_of_the_Wind |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 17 Jul 2013
- The flicker of a candle’s glow brightens the darkest caverns, illuminating gloomy passages, casting shadows upon the walls of the hand, that shields it’s flame from gusty breezes. Pro...
By: CKAcres |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 26 Jun 2013
- A three foot ring of crystal plants were illuminated around us. If any Solarites were around, we would have been spotted almost immediately. The thought made me shiver, but I highly doubted there wou...
By: Rebellious_Soul |
Category: Science Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 17 Jun 2013
- Her hand comes up, the blade there, dripping red onto the white counter top. A single line of blood seeps from the wound she's created, starting to drip off, into the sink, staining the porcelain perm...
By: Colors_of_the_Wind |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 4.4|
Added: 27 Mar 2013
- Another Time, AnotherPlace “Your human is a brat.” My love’s voice coiled towards me slowly, the words stretched out in the silly way that slow motion videos sound. His energy signature was humm...
By: aliera |
Category: Science Fiction |
Score: 4|
Added: 27 Feb 2013
- The light is always brighter in the darkness. "Get off your ass and do your chores!" The big man smelled of liquor. The flannel of his shirt was stained. The little boy knew better than to argue wit...
By: ashjoy |
Category: Drama |
Score: 4.7|
Added: 27 Feb 2013
- Flames Of Emptiness Burning hotter & brighter Never seems to get tired Just as long as there is fire Energy from light Energy from liars Always trying to get higher Fighting for right Fighti...
By: ThorRedskinLight |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4|
Added: 24 Feb 2013
- Abel and Kane “I will not ask you again Miss Gatewood.” The interrogator said. “What did you see down there?” Gatewood stamped out her cigarette on the tAbel . “I already told you. Freedom.” Th...
By: RobertHildenbrand |
Category: Science Fiction |
Score: 4|
Added: 24 Feb 2013
- To See, To Breathe Our chances are slim to none And our advances are wide for one But our chance to advance is only some God's land is blessed but only for he who won Not to talk with no meanin...
By: ThorRedskinLight |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 23 Feb 2013
- When Earth was void of love and life, And darkness reigned supreme. There was no time, nor thing, nor place, That darkness had not seen. The Lord of Light, while traveling throug...
By: plumnearly2 |
Category: Childrens |
Score: 5|
Added: 22 Feb 2013
- Julianne finished loading the large moving truck and pulled the rear door closed. She walked down the rear ramp and glanced up at the only home she had known for the last twenty years. She glanced dow...
By: RobertHildenbrand |
Category: Drama |
Score: 4.5|
Added: 22 Feb 2013
- It was early morning. The fog still clung in patches to the tips of the hills as I walked down to the edge of the lake. I felt chilled. Pulling my jacket closer around me I trudged on. Used to the hus...
By: vickie3338 |
Category: Drama |
Score: 4.7|
Added: 22 Feb 2013
- True Illumination There was once a lush and beautiful forest teeming with life, and any who passed through it felt refreshed and cheerful. Its borders stretched all the way from the village of ...
By: Amber |
Category: Fantasy |
Score: 4.7|
Added: 20 Feb 2013
- I love light. I hate the darkness. This might be a statement you would hear from most people. Unfortunately, my obsessiveness stems for one horrifying weekend I will never forget. My fear of darkness ...
By: Vinster1968 |
Category: Drama |
Score: 4|
Added: 17 Feb 2013
- The Lightning & Thunder Theory of Light & Dark Matter Zeus, Greek God of Lightning, & Thor, Norse God of Thunder, meet in the Heavens for Earths greatest herbs & for the discussion of what helps ...
By: ThorRedskinLight |
Category: Humor |
Score: 3.7|
Added: 18 Feb 2013
- Fighting the Everdark The room was black as pitch, but for the harsh glare of an aging laptop. It was the kind that would creak in eerie protest of the stress it's owner, the Author, was sure to impo...
By: rhibeard |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 4.5|
Added: 16 Feb 2013
- “You don’t have to come,” she mumbled through the phone. I heard a sniff, a cough, and then an apology of some sort. “I’m fine, really.” Hardly convincing, I thought, as I grabbed keys and locked the ...
By: isaac |
Category: Drama |
Score: 3.9|
Added: 17 Feb 2013
- Presently I am evil…I am darkness I don’t possess a body, apparently I am just an entity, Do I even exist is the question. Everything is dark, even the darkness is eloped by some thick fog. It is i...
By: BestAbsolutePerfect |
Category: Science Fiction |
Score: 4|
Added: 15 Feb 2013
- The subdued yellow glow of lampposts served as my makeshift milestones as I trudged down the road. Humidity choked the post-storm air. The storm had raged for hours; there had been reports of widespre...
By: AlexH |
Category: Musings |
Score: 4.3|
Added: 12 Feb 2013
- All wars have a beginning and all wars have an end, except for one. The war between the light that illuminates the world with all that is good and the darkness which fills our hearts, blinding us with...
By: RobertHildenbrand |
Category: Fantasy |
Score: 4|
Added: 11 Feb 2013
- There was a demon in my bathroom mirror. This was not one of those cartoon imps, with their chubby faces, and tiny horns. It was not the kind that waves its cute little pitchfork at you as it capers...
By: Kestrel36 |
Category: Horror |
Score: 4.3|
Added: 08 Feb 2013
- Abyss “When you gaze into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you” -Friedrich Nietzsche According to Merriam -Webster’s English Dictionary, depression is defined as, “ A psycho ne...
By: Thesaddestlandscape |
Category: Memoirs |
Score: 2.7|
Added: 07 Feb 2013
- “Hey, Sarge.” The man he was addressing was a large, almost hulking, individual that was field stripping a weapon casually but expertly. He looked to be in his mid twenties, give or take a few ye...
By: Rascal |
Category: Science Fiction |
Score: 4.8|
Added: 05 Feb 2013
- BLOOD OATH upon the field of honour we do stand tall and unwavering true to our one God banners whipping in the wind of discontent shields and battle axes at the ready to defend swords draw...
By: fuzzy1954 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 3.6|
Added: 30 Jan 2013
- I was created for the dark, yet I often wonder what else this universe has to offer. I’m not allowed into the light. My grandmother tells me stories of what it feels like to break the night with golde...
By: samanthafountain |
Category: Fantasy |
Score: 4|
Added: 27 Jan 2013
- Allowing myself to misplace reality's grip. Dwelling yet again in the past, feeling dismay. Into the bottomless depths of darkness I slip. Why could life not have been a different way? Trying to re...
By: CKAcres |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.9|
Added: 27 Jan 2013
- LOVER’S LEAP by Curtis James McConnell I tell you now, it is love which binds us. Using simple blackhole physics, we shall prove this. Whether you are too cool, manly, cynical or intellectual ...
By: CurtisJamesMcConnell |
Category: Science Fiction |
Score: 4|
Added: 27 Jan 2013
- I missed you, sweetie , the message said. And before she could turn around, she was dead. "I missed you, sweetheart," said the killer to her severed head.
By: Colors_of_the_Wind |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 4.9|
Added: 15 Jan 2013
- I have no feelings, Lost A hollow sense of self. I want what I cannot have and Yearn for all that is beyond my reach. I want to wake up gone, Adrift in heaven Away from a world that hu...
By: LittleSister_ |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 2.6|
Added: 07 Jan 2013
- Morning sky cloaked in grey Warmth not felt from the start Like a mind in disarray Feelings cold in the heart Psyche constrained gone astray Sun's warmth blocked Just like an errant sou...
By: CKAcres |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 06 Jan 2013
- My friend's soul I feel has been invaded. Paranoia taking over, their vision shaded. This person that I feel coming out right now. Is a stranger to me, foreign, different, Wow! Seeming to attack ...
By: CKAcres |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 05 Jan 2013
- “Hey, turn that overhead light back on, can't you see I'm trying to read here? “Oh, don't be a silly goose, there's a table lamp right next to you there that should give you plenty of light, John.” ...
By: Rascal |
Category: Humor |
Score: 4.9|
Added: 04 Jan 2013
- Nobody said it would be easy. She just didn’t expect it’d be this hard. The clock ticks the hours, the minutes, the seconds, and with each passing minute of daylight, she sighs deeply and braces for...
By: DianaShallard |
Category: Drama |
Score: 4.5|
Added: 04 Jan 2013
- A pitiful act, a devious plan The play of the mind, a simple question Where to be now, at this moment? It seems like something odd or naive, maybe Yet that thought drives dreams and create nightm...
By: Isadora |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 31 Dec 2012
- Life is too short to spend it in the darkness of ones mind. Hoping this year I can see colors and light, not be blind. Sharing wondrous images, love, respecting all mankind. What are the things thi...
By: CKAcres |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 01 Jan 2013
- Broken Rampart Tattered Golden Banner evil is on the march from the east from the north and even from the west darkness covers the land evil everywhere he who calls upon darkness holds s...
By: fuzzy1954 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 3.9|
Added: 31 Dec 2012
- Darkness swirling around me, I see facets of human I would rather they not exist A young woman gang raped, brutally beaten Thrown away not so much like garbage naked. She fought to survive,...
By: sea |
Category: Musings |
Score: 4.8|
Added: 29 Dec 2012
- Since the dawn of time Before poets learned to rhyme They have remained together yet apart Fighting for supremacy in every being’s heart. One is dark like the night, Whose first instinct is to fight ...
By: Isabelle |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.6|
Added: 28 Dec 2012
- 5 days ago, the world ended 5 days from now, the year will 2 days ago, Lucy left 2 days from now, I’ll get over it Yesterday was a Roman holiday Tomorrow, I have to go back to work Toda...
By: alexfenris |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.1|
Added: 27 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
- This day is cold and dreary, The angels pouring tears of mourning misery Upon the corpses of leaves That slake their former glory into slime Along the pavements I tread with weariness. The sky heaves...
By: Daisy |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 22 Nov 2012
- Alone at night Stars sparkling I think of warmth lost to me My soul is cold Touch of fear Yet I admire nature’s cold beauties I close my eyes darkness to match the skies I hear t...
By: sea |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.9|
Added: 19 Oct 2012
- WAS THERE LIGHT ? It wasn't that you were mistaken That you imagined it It's just that she has given in to her darkness And has doused her
By: lifedancer2 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 09 Aug 2012
- Even in the darkest sky there is light. Look hard not a quickened glance, light is there to see. Even turbulent swirling dark clouds carry images of joy, that display in time. Where nothing good...
By: CKAcres |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.6|
Added: 30 Dec 2011
- The 7 trees The seven trees Once bare limbed Gather their summer robes Swirling around them As they dance in the wind Luminescent bursts of light appear Through hand span sized l...
By: courage2bfree |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.5|
Added: 05 Sep 2011
- I like this light that streams in through my window and fills my heart I don’t know what time of the day it is, or where I am. I can’t seem to attribute this light to any particular time or ...
By: alexfenris |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 16 Jun 2011