- I have many reasons to be cheerful on this sunny Friday morning. In fact, the only cloud on my horizon is my husband, Alex. He seems reluctant to leave for work and keeps on drifting in and out of my...
By: VikaJ93 |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 06 Sep 2020
- My country used to be a place where one would not be tossed from grace because they didn’t hold some point of view. Where free speech was the cherished thing because it does make freedom ring! A fac...
By: rantingsenior |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 03 Aug 2020
- I've traveled many miles before reaching you. Fallen from vast heights, down waterfalls, rivers and through streams. My pollution is minimal as I have always kept moving. Now, I want to be a lake, ne...
By: chippihc |
Category: Musings |
Score: 4.9|
Added: 24 Jun 2020
- Aikasa’s eyes had gone wide as she processed the information Kenji just blurted out at her. She just remained there standing while staring at him. “Aren’t you happy? We are finally getting married…”...
By: FrustratedSpeaker |
Category: Drama |
Score: 0|
Added: 27 Oct 2019
- Lonely: With his good hand, Tom raised his glass and drank deeply. Blergh! He thought, making a face. Raspberry Vodka. It was all they had. All he could find in the house, all the other drinks and...
By: LauraDanielle |
Category: Drama |
Score: 5|
Added: 27 Aug 2019
- I lie face-up to feel the coolness of the room touch my skin; much as a lover’s hand might do. There’s a whisper of an air current that walks its fingertips of a breeze down my chest and across my ni...
By: Wordpusher715 |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 20 Oct 2018
- His feeling for her became more and more just a procedure and an obligation after they had been married for ten years. The passions and the joys were gone long ago. Kazrim had also lost his intere...
By: KazeronnieMak777 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 14 Aug 2018
- A very distracted man has a talk with Buddha in a temple one late night. He, ‘Enlightened Buddha, I’m a married man, but I’m frantically falling in love with another woman now. I really don’t know ...
By: KazeronnieMak777 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 06 Aug 2018
- Grandpa awoke with tears in his eyes. He knew something was wrong and it saddened him. He sucked air through the nose mask. The CPAP machine hissed. The air that did not go into his lungs escaped th...
By: Wordpusher715 |
Category: General |
Score: 5|
Added: 05 Aug 2018
- It was back to 16 years ago, Guixiang had married to his beloved wife of neglect the secular remarks. When he met a woman whose name was Xiulian, a graceful name. She had divorced from her p...
By: KazeronnieMak777 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 0|
Added: 30 Jun 2018
- How beautiful you look today! Your hair just so and tucked away. Your face is beaming, your smile is bright, Is it because of something we shared last night? How beautiful you look today! You...
By: Wordpusher715 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 08 Jun 2018
- Breakfast is a cookin’ and the bacon sure smells good, Mama’s hummin to the radio and a tappin’ her foot, Daddy’s smilin’ this morning and tickling little brother, Why is this day different than a...
By: Wordpusher715 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 07 Jun 2018
- Standing in front of Principal Ozawa’s office door made her feel shivers all over her body. She does not know the reason why she was being called, but Tachibana-sensei told her it was something impor...
By: FrustratedSpeaker |
Category: Drama |
Score: 0|
Added: 28 Dec 2017
- Mam and I have lived alone ever since Da died. I remember that day almost twenty five years ago as it were yesterday; there was a terrible storm and Da was outside fixing the tarpaulins covering the ...
By: Kavyansh |
Category: Romance |
Score: 5|
Added: 03 Sep 2017
- In hindsight, there was an inevitability To the tragedy that unfolded that day, And no doubt that responsibility lay, With the magnate’s conceited pride, In proposing a match of such unsuitability Ju...
By: Kavyansh |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 15 Aug 2017
- Barely visible in the inky gloom, The cold bodies of the young lovers lay, Just a glimmer of pale flesh in the dark, The watery fastness their woeful tomb. Unmoved by the sun’s warming ray, Never aga...
By: Kavyansh |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 14 Aug 2017
- 1 “Oh Carl, you can’t expect me to believe that someone stole your pants at the gym, can you?” Carol asked. There was no heat in her voice, yet, which surprised and momentarily pleased her. “My ...
By: TouchOfGray |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 01 Aug 2017
- I sat leaning against the stone pillar of the decades-old bridge, watching as the sun began to rise over the horizon, my legs dangling over the edge, my hand resting on the recently installed railing...
By: bella685 |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 17 Apr 2017
- Nsansa was right when he said I would be blamed for Uliya’s death. The young blossoming and fertile second wife of my husband had succumbed to a mysterious fatality, and I was the only witness. A ...
By: Vuto_MSK |
Category: Fantasy |
Score: 5|
Added: 13 Feb 2017
- Ashley awoke in the middle of the night to find fifteen missed calls on her phone. Her first instinct was to wake Bill, but as she reached for him, she had an alarming thought. Wasn’t he on call la...
By: Amber |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 02 Feb 2017
- We first met entirely by accident On a lovely bright sunny day in Spring, It was the first of May as I recall; Even now I remember it clearly, Although almost four decades have passed by. Strolling a...
By: Kavyansh |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 29 Jan 2017
- I hated how beautiful she was. I hated her sleek, slender figure, her caramel skin, her and her long dark hair. Traditionally men couldn’t stand the idea of a slender wife. However, for a farmer lik...
By: Vuto_MSK |
Category: Drama |
Score: 5|
Added: 18 Jan 2017
- The shame upon your face as you turned and walked away, spoke silently in volumes of the things you could not say; You'd finally given up, thought you'd fought a valiant fight; Our marriage...
By: bella685 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 10 Nov 2016
- If I'd known then what I know now, I'd never have stood beside and taken the vow; But hindsight is 20/20 and love is blind, the caring facade veiled secrets, well confined; You keenly pursued me,...
By: bella685 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 26 Sep 2016
- A pink blush tinged her cheeks, That moment he smiled at her. And how she flushed so red, When he offered a flower. She glowed more than the sapphire, On her finger, he bestowed. With promises ...
By: HazelsHeaven |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 11 Sep 2016
- Prologue From a purely personal point of view, happiness is extremely difficult to describe. We are either happy, or we are unhappy, and it seems that there is little we can do, however hard we may s...
By: Kavyansh |
Category: Romance |
Score: 5|
Added: 05 Sep 2016
- She was plain as paper. There was something very nondescript about her. The darkish, straight brows, the blue eyes that were just that - blue. Not a special blue, or a sparkling blue. They were neithe...
By: LauraDanielle |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 10 Aug 2016
- How you break my heart You'll never know Each word of her Tears my world in two And only then Are my eyes opened And I realize You and I May never be. My tears are gathering I can...
By: LovelyTiff |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 21 Jun 2016
- I was her first, and she was my last. I know that’s overly cliched, but it was the absolute truth for both of us. I don’t recall, exactly, the very first time that I saw her. She was working at a loc...
By: bmcatt |
Category: Romance |
Score: 5|
Added: 05 Jun 2016
- I may be a complicated, difficult, often times short tempered, dare I say shrew? I know I'm a mess, but for better or worse you agreed and signed on the dotted line. Did you really think in light of ...
By: gillianleeza |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 18 May 2016
- Funny how true love prevails Even after those dark days Back to our life fairy-tale In bad times, I did pray We're both in a better place Love is back and here to stay We now always touch base We can...
By: mysteria27 |
Category: Poetry |
Added: 10 May 2016
- Late night talks in bed With you Leave me in awe You hold my hand Telling me I'm beautiful Forever yours Years of ups and downs Fights And the make ups Gains and losses Yet We grow Your smi...
By: HisAmelia |
Category: Musings |
Added: 17 Apr 2016
- The Best Day Oh boy! Here comes the ice-cream man. Such joy only he can bring. I raise up my dime, high in my hand. “Please give me a cold treat.” I sing. With a nod and a smile; he hands me a po...
By: Pirate |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 07 Apr 2016
- Stares and cries..oh what a sight The ring on her finger catches the light She closes her eyes and tries to forget What she had done, so full of regret Weeks ago she told him no That she di...
By: Kiera |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 01 Mar 2016
- THE NEXT DUCHESS All is as you thought it would be sir and more. The Duke is most formidable. He is powerful and feared. Respect he commands well through design. Vigilance is his strength. He’l...
By: sfe |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 05 Feb 2016
- I’m so tired of how you treat me I know that you’re stressed I dream of running to be free I’m so not enjoying this mess I hate the way you talk to me We’re supposed to be a team I really think...
By: mysteria27 |
Category: Poetry |
Added: 05 Nov 2015
- I can't talk any time of the day I'm at my boiling point There's nothing more to say This is a complete disjoint Don't say this You roll your eyes This is not happy bliss This is no surprise I'm...
By: mysteria27 |
Category: Poetry |
Added: 18 Sep 2015
- You tell me you'll change Each month it’s the same shit Your behavior is beyond strange I really wish we could quit You never have any time for me You 'yes' me to death I wish I could leave you...
By: mysteria27 |
Category: Poetry |
Added: 17 Sep 2015
- I cannot bear to see you Hurting in this way Come here and let me comfort you And chase your fears away You must know I love you Why do you doubt me so? I have been here by your side When it matters...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 14 Jun 2015
- She stepped down the broad marble staircase uncertainly, feeling the weight of the coin purse Artemidoros had given her thump heavily against her leg. At the bottom of the steps, she turned back, look...
By: crusch |
Category: Fantasy |
Score: 5|
Added: 02 May 2015
- A day filled with lots of pain, No call to ask how I am. This marriage is under strain, To me it's a total sham. You seem not to care, I give it my complete all. Thank God, for my emotional affair, ...
By: mysteria27 |
Category: Poetry |
Added: 01 May 2015
- She stares and cries..oh what a sight The ring on her finger catches the light She closes her eyes and tries to forget What she had done, so full of regret Weeks ago she told him no That sh...
By: Kiera |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 15 Apr 2015
- Carpenter left long before Sunrise which allowed the Monk to return to his research. He double and triple checked his findings and each time the answer he arrived at was the same. "There is only one...
By: The_Count |
Category: Supernatural |
Score: 5|
Added: 29 Mar 2015
- Oh great, here comes the mood, You never know how you'll be. Sometimes I cry because your rude, You must know this and agree. Please get rid of this stress, And stop talking about it. It's just an a...
By: mysteria27 |
Category: Poetry |
Added: 24 Jan 2015
- I often wonder what you think, Your actions are different then mine. We really are never quite in sync, You're always working never giving me time. There's more to life then just work, I'm needing m...
By: mysteria27 |
Category: Poetry |
Added: 28 Dec 2014
- Pain doesn't need to hurt by ones hand, It can hurt by what one says or doesn't say. I often say life is grand, But it's the lack of words that hurts most days. It's nice if one can just say what th...
By: mysteria27 |
Category: Poetry |
Added: 26 Dec 2014
- I was hopeful for a lovely day, But you just can't give me the time. I'm so miserable in so many ways, Loving you is really a crime. A simple hello would be nice, Ask me how I'm doing. Your mood is ...
By: mysteria27 |
Category: Poetry |
Added: 25 Dec 2014
- I love to share my thoughts and dreams with my guy, We're both the apples to each other's eyes. Sometimes we laugh and sometimes we cry. Enjoying each other in whatever we do, Remembering to always ...
By: mysteria27 |
Category: Poetry |
Added: 08 Dec 2014
- Sometimes we laugh and everything is great, Other times it's silence and moods. It's a crap shoot to try to relate, I don't ever want to intrude. I then feel like it's some how my fault, You don't w...
By: mysteria27 |
Category: Poetry |
Added: 22 Nov 2014
- Dreams of love and a simple kiss, Wanting and hoping for romantic bliss. You look and search for the perfect one, Lots of disappointment and not much fun. To feel a deep connection and lots of affe...
By: mysteria27 |
Category: Poetry |
Added: 03 Nov 2014
- “A married man?” my sister asked. “Yes, a married man.” “ Why a married man?” my nosey sister asked. “The married ones are the best.” I told her. “I suppose so, they usually have some don...
By: Sparkle |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Added: 29 Jul 2014
- Love is inexplicable, inextricable, Juices made ever trickleable, Kisses trail down our bodies, lingering on lips, which tingle forever, moans exchanged in a chorus of love, as pure and unblemished as...
By: Circle_Something |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 22 May 2014
- I think I have came upon the answer that not only historians, but the women of the world have asked since the beginning of time. From the second that parents find out they are going to have a daught...
By: Cheryl |
Category: Humor |
Score: 5|
Added: 30 Apr 2014
- Oh my love My Sisyphus Content to struggle up the crag To feel the ache of limbs Limbs extended in one effort Toward an endless goal Such bliss To stand at attention Wind smoothing the...
By: AvrgBlkGrl |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 13 Apr 2014
- Margo sat huddled in the dark basement. Upstairs, she heard the "click" of the back-door opening - opening in a sneaky sinister sort of a way. That door was supposed to be locked ! Margo thought, ...
By: Calindra |
Category: General |
Score: 5|
Added: 08 Apr 2014
- I am here for so many hours in a day, Why don't you reach out in some kind of way. A phone call or a text seem rather nice, You seem rather cold, your mood like ice. I am always doing nice things f...
By: mysteria27 |
Category: Poetry |
Added: 05 Mar 2014
- I wish I were born in simpler times When marriage was forever A time when people fixed what was broken Instead of throwing it away We live in a world Of instant gratification Following desires and w...
By: Finallyatpeace |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.6|
Added: 15 Feb 2014
- Loving my spouse all through my life, I am his devoted and caring wife. Loving each other every single day, Being thankful in so many ways. The day we were married together, A bond and commitment t...
By: mysteria27 |
Category: Poetry |
Added: 13 Feb 2014
- Robert Frost said “fire and ice” But he was wrong. It wasn’t like that at all. Oh, there was fire, and a brilliant flame it was. Our exothermic chemistry filled the air. And the electri...
By: DLizze |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 21 Jan 2014
- On 29 November 2013, I got a phone call from a former coursemate of mine asking me whether I had received any news on the accident of a friend and former coursemate Abdulrahman, which at that time I h...
By: danjuma |
Category: Musings |
Score: 4.3|
Added: 06 Jan 2014
- I love to think of all we have done, All the memories and all of the fun. We've been together for many years, We've had happy times and days filled with tears. We're each other's soul mate, It was ...
By: mysteria27 |
Category: Poetry |
Added: 10 Dec 2013
- I jumped off the cart, unhitched my horse and stormed right into the forest. I wanted to get lost in the thicket and run free from all the burdens of my life. I wanted to run and keep running as far,...
By: Rebellious_Soul |
Category: Fantasy |
Score: 5|
Added: 28 Oct 2013
- I had assumed that I was the only person in the office at that early hour, but clearly someone was nearby as I bent over to retrieve the files I had just managed to spill all over the floor. Perhaps i...
By: Jackson_Banks |
Category: Humor |
Score: 4.3|
Added: 01 Apr 2013
- (3/8/13) The angels gathered in heaven to witness our wedding day For this was a match made in heaven as they came together to pray Long before our births-GOD had made this plan And he ha...
By: poetlou |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 0|
Added: 09 Mar 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: 4.6|
Added: 04 Jan 2013
- Once there was a beautiful princess named Ijlal. She had hair the color of dates, and eyes as blue as the sea, eyes that were so captivating she had thousands of suitors falling at her feet every day....
By: Isabelle |
Category: Young Adult |
Score: 4.3|
Added: 12 Dec 2012
- I have been married for 42 years. I discovered after getting married that you never really know your in-laws until then. My wife and I went to school together, grammar school and high school. I got pu...
By: frogprince |
Category: Memoirs |
Score: 4.3|
Added: 16 Nov 2012
- I don't watch much TV these days, it keeps reminding me that it's partly my fault our country is in such a mess. I'm not spending enough money to fuel our economy and when I do spend my only reward i...
By: steffanie |
Category: Musings |
Score: 4.8|
Added: 26 Jun 2012
- The man called out — there was something to see! Quickly the wife pondered what it might be. His voice held not a hint of worry or stress. Indeed, was that a tone of happiness? Following the sound s...
By: magnificent1rascal |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 23 Jun 2012
- I generally do not like massages. There is something about a fully clothed stranger touching me while naked that resonates weird in my mind. It brings to mind the clinical setting of my doctor’s ...
By: Jackson_Banks |
Category: Humor |
Score: 4.9|
Added: 18 Jun 2012
- The Wife his love, never fallen into her evident to both for long her non-denial from the onset hurtful honesty then, no longer only at the end no wasted effort on his part all had to go ...
By: HulyaY |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.5|
Added: 14 May 2012
- Note: This is a little experimental story. Mortimer was seated on a small sofa in the living room, when Myrtle came in from the kitchen and sat on the sofa next to him. She wore a blue floral dress a...
By: Sisyphus |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 03 Feb 2012
- Younger ; Older Cautious ; Bolder Naïve ; Weary Trusting ; Leery Quiet ; Loud Humble ; Proud Merciful ; Hard Slender ; Lard Children ; Dogs Kittens ; Frogs Petite ; Big ...
By: rantingsenior |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 24 Jan 2012
- Do you think the world would notice If one flower failed to bloom? Or if one snowflake melted Before it touched the ground? Never being given the chance to find Its place beneath the ...
By: Sherzahd |
Category: Drama |
Score: 5|
Added: 21 Dec 2011
- The wife surveyed the closet and let out a sigh. With a roll of her eyes, she said, “Why, my dear, why?” How many knit shirts could one man possibly need? Ten? Twenty? More, perchance...but eighty-fo...
By: magnificent1rascal |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 03 Nov 2011
- The wife surveyed the closet and let out a sigh. How many knit shirts could one man possibly need? Ten? Twenty? More, perchance...but eighty-four? Indeed! With a roll of her eyes, she said, “Why...
By: magnificent1rascal |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.9|
Added: 01 Nov 2011
- Two fallen hearts, Who's thrown the darts, Filled of evil poison? Two soul-mates, It was surely fate, But now it's blue confetti. Broken and torn, Vows that were sworn, Now they do not matter. Left...
By: unicorn92 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.6|
Added: 27 Oct 2011
- We’ve been together for so long, And I think the time is right, Something I just need to ask you girl, And I need to know tonight. So much has changed for me, Since you came into my life, I need you ...
By: DirtyMartini |
Category: Songs |
Score: 4.8|
Added: 04 Sep 2011
- Get me to the Church on time (Prompted by the Royal Marriage of Prince William to Kate Middleton) Just out from the workshop and patched up a treat, the old Rolls Royce pulled up a...
By: Davidpendragon1 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 23 Aug 2011
- The Saturday after Thanksgiving, I walked down the stairs into the living room where my lovely wife had assumed her normal position. “On Monday, remind me to call the home warranty people. My bathroom...
By: Jackson_Banks |
Category: Humor |
Score: 5|
Added: 15 Jun 2011
- Before the church would marry us, it required that we attend a “marriage compatibility” class. I began my unsuccessful attempt to promote elopement as the best way to achieve our mutual goal upon lear...
By: Jackson_Banks |
Category: Humor |
Score: 5|
Added: 10 Jun 2011
- Ask most people what I do for a living and they’ll say I chase ambulances. That is simply false. I married a nurse precisely because I am not a good runner and did not want to have to chase them. In t...
By: Jackson_Banks |
Category: Humor |
Score: 5|
Added: 09 Jun 2011
- Of all the things we celebrate, There is one very special date, That special day when vows were said, Our special day when we were wed. Of you my love, I was so fond, To want to start a lasting bond,...
By: DirtyMartini |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.8|
Added: 13 Jan 2011
- I recall the evening as if it were yesterday, even though it's been over ten years. I stared down at the table and mindlessly picked at my food while my wife sat silently across from me. Nancy and I h...
By: DirtyMartini |
Category: Romance |
Score: 4.8|
Added: 10 Nov 2010
- Looking back on the time we shared, Nothing else in my life has compared, Ever since that day we walked down the aisle, We have walked together for many a mile, Joined together hand in hand, Part of s...
By: DirtyMartini |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 3.5|
Added: 01 Nov 2010
- Entering the room, the wife stopped short at the door: She saw not one, two or three, but FOUR pants on the floor! What could have caused an action so rash, Four trousers crumpled like yesterday's ...
By: magnificent1rascal |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 12 Oct 2010