- The night had hung a full moon over the arbor's gate as the shadows migrate beneath trellises of wild roses and I saw an angel in my dreams as granny sang me lullabies as her tears flowed over e...
By: Adagio |
Category: Musings |
Score: 0|
Added: 18 Aug 2019
- What seek ye? What dreams do you chase? New latitudes, a new meridian? This daily life is too quotidian? So real that it turns out surreal? No midnight love shares your embrace? The king has mas...
By: JamesFoley |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 16 Aug 2019
- I remember when people ate fried chicken saying their amens while licking their hands and not fingers in a box puffed up with botox Granny had a new set of polished teeth from Sears and Robuck and I...
By: Adagio |
Category: Musings |
Score: 4.5|
Added: 29 Jul 2019
- Almost forty years have passed since that fateful day When in a moment of anguish our affair died, Discovered in the tender bliss of recent sex, Nakedly entwined in each other’s loving arms. We had g...
By: Kavyansh |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 27 Jul 2019
- I pray you, do not trample on my dreams. Though you may only see this mortal shell, A frail thing of flesh; this outward reality, Is of no greater substance than the air, Masking the real tr...
By: Kavyansh |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 30 May 2019
- It’s on summer nights such as this That I remember so clearly; Sitting in my chair in silence As the daylight fades from the sky And the soft air folds about me Like a soothing blanket of peace....
By: Kavyansh |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 30 Apr 2019
- Songs of Youth My thin memories were born Among the whispering grasses Of an Indiana field sloping down To drink from a nameless creek. They were suckled by jiggers And sung to by whippo...
By: MikeStone |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 31 Mar 2019
- Sounds. Voices. Tingling. “I saw a twitch …” “… His eyelids are fluttering …” “How are we doing today Mr. Stavros? You gave us quite a scare, didn’t he Mrs. Stavros?” The young woman addressing...
By: MikeStone |
Category: Drama |
Score: 5|
Added: 12 Mar 2019
- “What can I do for you?” “Well, Professor Palmer, I’ve been browsing the Internet and came across your work on false memories and external indicators differentiating false and true memories,” Axel a...
By: MikeStone |
Category: Drama |
Score: 5|
Added: 24 Feb 2019
- Fresh snow blanketed a sleepy, Saturday morning, making it the picturesque winter day that we dream. The jungles of concrete and asphalt were hidden, with white on evergreen, as far as the eye could ...
By: Ping |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 16 Feb 2019
- Standing on the cliff edge early on that spring morn He watched the sun rise over the rim of the world, Painting the cliffs golden in the clear light of dawn. How he envied the sea birds who with win...
By: Kavyansh |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 12 Feb 2019
- It's not the dripping that I hear, it's just the moaning in her sleep, resting here beside me. The faucet often awakens me as well. My sleepless nights we spend together as she restively walks in m...
By: Survivor |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 02 Feb 2019
- "Start random playlist," he said, waiting expectantly, unseeing eyes turned straight ahead. Two guitar chords, loud and clear, shook loose a memory. He knew what was coming. Singing, she entered th...
By: gypsy |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 27 Jan 2019
- The concept we invented Within the human mind The passage of our lives Is Time for everyone It seems that Time is warping Keeps warping as we age It bends Contorts To make us lose The fabric of...
By: Survivor |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 07 Dec 2018
- This reminiscent story was inspired by the forum thread, “What kind of car did you drive in high school?” When I was a young lad in Texas, my dad made me work weekends and summers for his con...
By: Dreamcatcher |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 16 Nov 2018
- Running at full tilt, all out, across the sandy shore for the very first time. Unleashed and released and giving it all he has to complete the puppy race. The very first time will live in his cani...
By: Survivor |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 16 Oct 2018
- Crossings and remembering a school of fish, calm and lazy, and of wanting their serenity so bad I ALMOST jumped overboard, remembering that everything was as it should have been, … as these ...
By: EyeOfTheBeholder |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 10 Oct 2018
- Teresa and Mabel, twelve and eight, were skating on the concrete driveway and sidewalk wearing brand new roller skates. It was great fun. Father called out the front door to Teresa. She didn't hear ...
By: Survivor |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 18 Sep 2018
- Memories everywhere. I used to try and put them away or keep them safe, Not sharing. Such a part of me. Making me who I am. What my life has become. Doesn't mean I can't make new ones. I can shar...
By: maryruth |
Category: Memoirs |
Score: 5|
Added: 07 Jul 2018
- Night on the beach. Awakening suddenly, David felt Jamie’s dark hair tickling his cheek. He stirred on the towel. “How long was I asleep?” “Only for a few minutes,” Jamie said. “You must be beat....
By: JamesFoley |
Category: Romance |
Score: 5|
Added: 18 Apr 2018
- He is such a loving man. It may be a good thing to talk about it. Who really knows. Only the ones still not at peace can say for sure. But he never talked about it. Service for a lifetime. A caree...
By: Survivor |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 14 Mar 2018
- My story begins the day my father died. He was my friend,my mentor, but first and foremost my wonderful loving father. He tried to teach me all about the pains of the world. He would talk every day...
By: Queen23 |
Category: General |
Score: 5|
Added: 23 Feb 2018
- "We can dance if we want to." So that's what they did. They drove about an hour away to the nearest honky tonk. The music was mostly Texas two-step and foxtrot but the band got a little funky at ti...
By: Survivor |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 09 Feb 2018
- Dear Dad, I should have done this so much sooner but I am a procrastinator as you well know. Sharing my thoughts with you now is the very least I can offer. Soon you won't remember my words and perh...
By: gillianleeza |
Category: Memoirs |
Score: 5|
Added: 20 Sep 2017
- It has been so long Since I saw your face My arms long to hold you My lips to taste To hear your laughter And songs you sing To watch you sleep Or share a meal We will not fail A love this...
By: maryruth |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 09 Sep 2017
- The End My father who is working as a nurse at that time, he went to the brother’s house, possibly with my grandfather. Makes a talk of peace, after explaining the situation about me protecting m...
By: SWARM |
Category: Adventure |
Score: 0|
Added: 07 Sep 2017
- My First Fight I honestly cannot remember what happens next or what I was doing before this occasion. This event just stands out of its own from start to finish. I will never forget this moment i...
By: SWARM |
Category: Adventure |
Score: 0|
Added: 06 Sep 2017
- School Break The math teacher scribbles some numbers on the chalkboard. Each tap of the white chalk against the board and each drop of white ashes was like a count down to an execution. She's al...
By: SWARM |
Category: Adventure |
Score: 0|
Added: 05 Sep 2017
- Good Morning “Wake up Vincent,” said my grandmother. Envious of my little brother still sleeping on the straw mattress, the smell of mosquito coil is vacuumed out from the wooden balconies door....
By: SWARM |
Category: Adventure |
Score: 4.5|
Added: 04 Sep 2017
- The House of Pain The old man smiles finally someone who bought the house has returned. He wonders if a jeep still there? With a mix of curiosity how he knows this without being there, how did he...
By: SWARM |
Category: Adventure |
Score: 0|
Added: 03 Sep 2017
- The New Kids on the Block “Here he comes… run!” I shouted. And Nestor dodges Michael who was about to touch him. Nestor ran back to our base. “That was a close one!” he laughs. They already h...
By: SWARM |
Category: Adventure |
Score: 0|
Added: 02 Sep 2017
- Kung Fu Night Saturday night. The screaming kicks and the punches that keep missing against the head of an old master made the kids wants to join his school. Our leg’s skins against the cold surf...
By: SWARM |
Category: Adventure |
Score: 4|
Added: 01 Sep 2017
- The arrival of Amy’s mother, complete with an old photo album halted both their card game and the Interrogation of Willie. The invitation they had expected and feared, to join her on the couch, so...
By: Rumple_deWriter |
Category: General |
Score: 5|
Added: 29 Aug 2017
- It never failed. I was never surprised anymore. I walk out here with my fleece throw, my cup of coffee in hand, and sit on the bench overlooking the lake. Then, without question, there he is, always ...
By: Douglas_Daleray |
Category: Memoirs |
Score: 5|
Added: 16 Jun 2017
- 32 years ago today at exactly 5:16 pm God blessed me with a beautiful, healthy 6lb. 9oz, 19" long angel. I named my angel Katherine Elizabeth. She was called Katy from the beginning unless she wa...
By: bella685 |
Category: Memoirs |
Score: 5|
Added: 02 Jun 2017
- It was just after midnight on January 1, 2008. The sound of revelers and slow moving traffic going around the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile down the Champs-Élysées drifted up to our room. Carol and I s...
By: frogprince |
Category: Romance |
Score: 5|
Added: 26 May 2017
- Lonely hours into the night, battling tears and losing the fight; Broken heart that few will see; shattered spirit inside of me; Serene facade, despair within; pondering life, as it would have been...
By: WildIrishRose |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 04 May 2017
- Darlene had barely walked into the employee entrance door when she was grabbed by the arm by Gina, her friend, and co-worker. "Dar, that guy that was asking about you last week is back," she announc...
By: The_Count |
Category: General |
Score: 5|
Added: 23 Apr 2017
- I cried that day, as you passed away In my arms, where you did lay The warmth of your body, on those long cold nights The feel of your love, as we cuddled up tight You were my love, my hope, always ...
By: John_Doe |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 0|
Added: 23 Feb 2017
- My grandma and I sat on the bench, watching the river. I was eight, and she was almost eighty. “You see how still the river is, love?” she asked as she drew me close to her. “The deeper the river, t...
By: HazelsHeaven |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 20 Feb 2017
- I loved you for a lifetime We were two of a kind Our love always sublime Now I just live in your mind Precious memories stored One spouse needs to let go For the other heaven is the reward Our love...
By: mysteria27 |
Category: Poetry |
Added: 08 Feb 2017
- Was there a time you were not here with me Looking back I can not see All there was is now Time our only enemy The clock counts down Days rush by Each moment felt A touch, a whisper Are more speci...
By: gillianleeza |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 03 Feb 2017
- Cold and crisp, the air bites my face And my breath leaves with elegant grace I stand and see the waning sun's glare I close my eyes and I stare I take a step, over the peat I feel the path...
By: Martin |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 11 Jan 2017
- Another years gone by since God called you home; It's never gotten easier, but still, we carry on; We take each day as it comes, a moment at a time; And bask in cherished memories, that always cross ...
By: bella685 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 08 Jan 2017
- From as far back as she can remember, Her favourite place was behind the curtains, Watching the traffic through the window. Though, what drew her there she cannot be certain. But year after y...
By: AnnaMayZing |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 22 Dec 2016
- When I am ashes upon the shelf Will you remember me When you feel your skin tingle Will you remember me When you sense a breath in your ear Will you remember me When you see my toothbrush by ...
By: gillianleeza |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 28 Nov 2016
- It was Halloween weekend, just a little over two months before Katy passed away and we were spending it in one of Katy's favorite places. Asheville, North Carolina, about 100 miles from our home. My m...
By: bella685 |
Category: Memoirs |
Score: 5|
Added: 13 Nov 2016
- The perils of war, are furrowed deep in the memory of many, escape seems unobtainable, within the confines of minds young and old. Those who were lost, are not only those who perished in the con...
By: CKAcres |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 06 Nov 2016
- Sitting here as I make a crossing by ferry across Lake Michigan and feeling the old Navy terminology coming back in my mind as well as the remembered sea legs like when I was on two of the three shi...
By: Shotgun011 |
Category: Romance |
Score: 5|
Added: 18 Oct 2016
- It was a day just like today, I remember, The beginning of spring, a day of fresh beauty. Vanished were the harsh and bitter winds of winter. The landscape dull and heavy under a sullen sky, A...
By: Kavyansh |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 14 Oct 2016
- Now in the winter of my life I look back over our years together We have raised our children to adulthood We learned to communicate without words A glance, a smile, a wink and holding hands ...
By: rosesrred |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 14 Oct 2016
- Reaching through the darkness wanting to see Will I remember or will memories deceive I see you in my dreams crying out to you But you smile at me and tell me not to be blue I fear I'll lose your...
By: HisAmelia |
Category: Musings |
Added: 13 Sep 2016
- Grieve not for me when I am gone, I pray Nor bring my works to mind, my work is done. My time is spun and I have had my day, Others soon will take my place in the sun. If epitaph you feel impelled...
By: Kavyansh |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 08 Sep 2016
- Scattered thoughts inside my head; Secluded in my room I feel such dread; A wayward life that I have lead; Upon this lonely path I tread; My shattered heart has surely bl...
By: bella685 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 05 Sep 2016
- I pray you, do not trample on my dreams. Though you may only see this outer shell, A frail thing of flesh; this outward reality, Is of no greater substance than the air, Masking the real truth that...
By: Kavyansh |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 27 Aug 2016
- I live with the knowledge that things will never be the same again That things can never go back to what they were To what we were On the coldest of nights, when the chill leaks into my soul I am put...
By: LauraDanielle |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 03 Aug 2016
- I still remember you How you loved your family Keeping us together Simply living Tending the fields While paving the way Giving your girls life Showing them a better way A lover of cake And choc...
By: HisAmelia |
Category: Poetry |
Added: 10 Jul 2016
- "Come here, 'Lena. Come over to your stepfather." He beckons to me and I walk over, thinking maybe, just maybe, that day at the Zoo was a one-time thing. Maybe... maybe he wouldn't hurt me any...
By: Colors_of_the_Wind |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 08 Jul 2016
- His kisses, are dreams and wishes, Of butterfly wings, and new beginnings, Of stormy awakenings, and happy endings. His kisses, are his promises, Of love eternal, and all things spec...
By: HazelsHeaven |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 24 Apr 2016
- I had to go to the airport to pick up my son yesterday. I've made that trip at least a hundred times, so I was in my robotic brain-dead mode where my 50+ years of driving and my subconscious muscle me...
By: Dreamcatcher |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 22 Apr 2016
- When I look at us... I don't want to forget our Memories Touches The love I feel with you I need to remember the Laughter Conversations Between us two It's time to let go of Pain Disappointmen...
By: HisAmelia |
Category: Poetry |
Added: 21 Apr 2016
- Finding myself once again waiting here out on the platform, standing here waiting upon the arrival of yet another midnight train and feeling that gently blowing breeze and hearing it sigh through the ...
By: Shotgun011 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 17 Apr 2016
- Teardrops In TheChampagne Our place that we first met, Has closed and is no more. I enter what is left of it, Stepping through its shattered door. As I gaze upon the dust covered tables, ...
By: Pirate |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 0|
Added: 13 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
- It was the longest and warmest hug she had gotten in a long time. The moment he wrapped his strong arms around her she felt safe and happy. When he slowly relaxed his grip, she stepped back, and he dr...
By: The_Count |
Category: Romance |
Score: 5|
Added: 06 Feb 2016
- Standing here against a wall off of the main square her in the dark light of the sun, as I find myself leaning back as I close my tired eyes feeling the warm wind blowing and the heat under blue skies...
By: Shotgun011 |
Category: Memoirs |
Score: 5|
Added: 07 Feb 2016
- Sing me tuneless comfort Cradling my pain Help me bear the sadness Burdening my brain Hold me while I remember What can no longer be The unthought thoughts I daily Try so hard not to think And w...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 30 Jan 2016
- He pulled into the driveway and saw that the realtor was already there, leaning against the door of her car, waiting for him. She smiled and walked over to his car as he parked, grabbed his jacket an...
By: bmcatt |
Category: General |
Score: 5|
Added: 14 Jan 2016
- The longest night How I wait for thee The time has come To celebrate with friends We gather around the fire To sit and laugh And remember times old and new It's time to look and rejoice For the thing...
By: girlie4280 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 29 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
- Once upon a time, there was an unlikely pair of the very best of friends: an ant and a snail. The serene snail lived life slowly, in no hurry. Few could pierce his shell (metaphorically), but when t...
By: LousyNick |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 18 Nov 2015
- Dancing beneath the stars with you, Thrills my throbbing heart. My skin delights at your first touch, Such a way to start. Tingles travel down my body, Your face, eyes, and smile. I want...
By: Nox |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 17 Nov 2015
- One day, a couple years ago, I went online to read and write poems. As you read over the words letting your mind flow around the meaning , you find some you connect with and some you don't. In a ra...
By: Finallyatpeace |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 01 Oct 2015
- Grazed by your eyes As though you have touched me Watching your lips While words emerge softly Speaking to me Telling me more I just want to stay here Letting them pour Silken, like scarves That t...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 24 Sep 2015
- I do dwell too often on the past about things I had no control If I told all it would likely flabbergast these memories from so long ago I am ashamed when being asked of the things that happene...
By: CKAcres |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 11 Sep 2015
- I love to go to the amusement park Spending a wonderful day with my kids Sometimes we stay until dark A few times we’ve eaten BBQ Ribs We go every week like clock work I bet in three years we’ve...
By: mysteria27 |
Category: Poetry |
Added: 09 Sep 2015
- The winding vines tighten around the heart fluttering, bird-like and fit to burst. Heady hours flicker like Kodachrome through the projector in my head. Over and over the film slides, sticking on thos...
By: EvaJupiterSkies |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 4.7|
Added: 18 Aug 2015
- The skies are star-bright to the symphonies and I hurt. I ache, I've smeared my heart on the ground gladly that the world might see its streaks and judge them art. I hardly know what they are anymore....
By: EvaJupiterSkies |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 17 Aug 2015
- In my dreams last night I found myself sitting at the dining room table. Like so many times years ago, my report card spread open on the table in front of you. Your fingers again grasping my drea...
By: CKAcres |
Category: Memoirs |
Score: 5|
Added: 02 Aug 2015
- Within the first week after I took delivery of my new car, I stepped in gum. It got on the carpet. Not on the mat, but on the carpet just beneath the door. I was upset. I got most of it off, but there...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 18 Jul 2015
- Can you remember when we met That feeling of absolute joy Nervous feelings that made you sweat Hoping you were that special boy Simple talks that were so amazing Spending time with each other The jo...
By: mysteria27 |
Category: Poetry |
Added: 02 Jul 2015
- "That was wonderful." Susan hit me with that smile again. It made me quiver down to my core, but I didn't let her know. I think she knew anyway. "Do I get any of your story?" "Not just yet. I'd li...
By: Nox |
Category: Memoirs |
Score: 5|
Added: 16 Jun 2015
- We have all seen the results of vicious rumors and even nice rumors that twisted into something different. How do these happen and how do the twists end up in them? We have seen it often. Someone ...
By: frogprince |
Category: Memoirs |
Score: 5|
Added: 12 Jun 2015
- What if I hadn't made it through 8th grade What if I hadn't joined Harry Potter club What if I hadn't taken German What if I hadn't sat next to you? What if we hadn't spoken What if we hadn't ha...
By: Colors_of_the_Wind |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 11 Jun 2015
- With Holly back home Brother Sebastian returned with his trunks of research materials to the rail car as there was still the puzzle of the formula he had decipher. Carpenter returned to visiting him e...
By: The_Count |
Category: Supernatural |
Score: 5|
Added: 11 Jun 2015
- May I sit here by your side And just watch you be? May I linger for a while Enjoying you with me? May I see you make that smile That you used to do? The one where you look silly That we named afte...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 03 Jun 2015
- I chose to say "I love you" Uncertain how you felt I chose to tell you, not so I Could keep you for myself I chose to say I love you Cradled in your arms Together, lying in your bed My thoughts sec...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 27 May 2015
- "Welcome to Dave's Place." Walking in was a cute latina mujer. She was about 5' 4" with curves in the right places. I was obviously interested. I could only hope she'd pick up. I try to just flirt lig...
By: Nox |
Category: Drama |
Score: 5|
Added: 25 May 2015
- One. The oh-so-bulky laptop. Where I wrote you letters, and poems. I sat until my eyes were teary and all my thoughts were of you. Two. The little blue car. Where we shared our first real kiss (and ...
By: LousyNick |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 18 May 2015
- "Welcome to Dave's Place," I said from behind the bar. I can always recognize someone with a story. She walked through the door glancing around like she wasn't supposed to be here. Yet, she couldn't h...
By: Nox |
Category: General |
Score: 5|
Added: 13 May 2015
- Sitting here one morning here in the “great white North”, as the temperature falls and hovers right above zero. As I think about an email slideshow I have gotten from an old friend who is back in the ...
By: Shotgun011 |
Category: Memoirs |
Score: 5|
Added: 08 May 2015
- The days leading up to Mother’s Day were miserable. I was about forty months pregnant, or that’s what it seemed like at least. It didn’t help that my ankles were the size of my head and that I ached e...
By: musesinspire |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 05 May 2015
- Are goodbyes part of letting go? When loss breaks our hearts so. Loved ones never leave our mind. Constant ache, thrashing so unkind. Feeling part of our world has vanished. Can tear stained cheek...
By: CKAcres |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 05 May 2015
- Cookies and a Mothers Love In the kitchen, mom is baking away While I am outside, happy at play. “Come in”, says she, a smile on her face “ Go to the table and take your place.” Warm from the ov...
By: Pirate |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 19 Apr 2015
- The phone call mentioned here really took place Sitting here one summer night and staring at the blinds after having hung up the phone. Thinking of the call from an old friend who had a question a...
By: Shotgun011 |
Category: Memoirs |
Score: 4.8|
Added: 07 Apr 2015
- Knock knock! Who's there? Banana! Banana who? When my brother was a little boy, he loved Knock Knock jokes. Maybe all kids do, but Jack went through a period where he couldn't get enou...
By: gypsy |
Category: Memoirs |
Score: 5|
Added: 27 Mar 2015
- Feeling at times as if I were on the run, and somewhere along the way the skies changed from blue to grey. Causing me to think back to those times and places that were left behind along with that West...
By: Shotgun011 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 4.9|
Added: 11 Mar 2015