- Reaping the harvest was no easy task, but hard work was always rewarding, and today was a special day! The people sang new songs and were full of joy! They bundled the grain and lifted it high as the...
By: Mion |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 21 Feb 2020
- Tears. I never expected it. She didn’t want summer vacation to begin because she loved her teachers. She loved her classmates. She loved school. And on the last day, there were tears. But she got o...
By: Ping |
Category: Memoirs |
Score: 5|
Added: 08 Sep 2019
- Chaos strikes without a warning Decisions made were silently storming Lost house, car, and job in a single morning So I cast my bootstraps on without glee Time to prove I'm still alive, sti...
By: EyeOfTheBeholder |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 24 Oct 2018
- I want to fan you with the flames of my remembrance. Contemplation so holy the cosmos reel from the morning mother star to the volcanic sky father where wonder and grace manifest. Sacred and divin...
By: lilwhipp |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 30 Jul 2018
- You know what's funny? How easy it is to give up on something you cared so much about. You constantly tell yourself that you could never give up that something, whether it be a hobby, a loved one, or...
By: Collapsed_Universe |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 16 Jul 2018
- Reader discretion is advised. The first few lines of this work contain language or other material that some readers may find offensive. In consideration, Stories Space has elected to include this d...
By: Wordpusher715 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 4.8|
Added: 24 Jun 2018
- Like Fire Flies dancing in the night, Desperate lovers flit about, finding each other in random glory. Two become one, merging their luminescence Into a brilliant flash of radiant bliss, B...
By: Milik_Simplicity |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 01 Apr 2018
- Today is my son's 10th birthday. I never thought I would make it, but now, my kids are my life. They keep me from stopping. My own father was murdered when I was five and those 'why' and 'what if' ...
By: Ping |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 08 Nov 2017
- The olives and the ochres of withered blades, Of conkers and hazel all through the glade Dark evenings, too soon the clock going back, Squirrels secreting their nutty snacks A ring of fairies dan...
By: DannyX |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 18 Sep 2017
- A babblin' brook meanders by as I gaze upon a cloudless sky; Lyin' on the grassy shore, tis nary a thin' I treasure more; A breeze blows softly thru yonder trees settin' my troubled heart at eas...
By: bella685 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 28 Oct 2016
- What do you see When you glance my way Do you see the woman I was? Or the one who stands before you today? The frightened one Who was always so unsure If what she was doing Would work out in...
By: lg68 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 14 May 2016
- Once again I find myself standing here leaning against a wall listening to the day’s sounds in the dawn’s dark light, as the sounds of chords being heard and then fading away as I vaguely remember how...
By: Shotgun011 |
Category: Romance |
Score: 5|
Added: 01 May 2016
- The kids will be marching through the door soon to be off to fight in another war, and will have plenty of tales to tell in exchange for getting a hero’s farewell being given to them. And I wish the...
By: Shotgun011 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 04 Apr 2016
- Out here in the desert sun making my way down the line and at times feeling as if every step could be a final one. And it feels like I can’t seem to stop the pain that is sitting there i...
By: Shotgun011 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 03 Apr 2016
- I lift the pen, it feels leaden in my hand. I curl my fingers around the grip, my words feel heavy and hard to grasp. I heave a sigh and smooth back my raven black hair. How can I write what needs to ...
By: BBaker |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 03 Apr 2016
- Standing here and feeling that steady mist that’s falling having no words to say, and knowing exactly what is meant when they say that the Devil’s in the details and I seem to be walking in a wastelan...
By: Shotgun011 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 31 Jan 2016
- I sat alone in the dark, staring blindly at the rain. Wondering if I am truly insane. I always go to that park to watch those shadows in the dark. I question if you still love me and blame you for all...
By: adi_me |
Category: Memoirs |
Score: 5|
Added: 21 Jan 2016
- The closing of another year finds me out roamin’ around, looking down and passing all those painted faces I see and plastic places I never want to reach for. Countless others are like me under the co...
By: Shotgun011 |
Category: Memoirs |
Score: 5|
Added: 07 Jan 2016
- Remember me, as I find myself alone in darkness knowing that I can’t turn away from what I must do, and there are a lot of things that words can’t say. So walk away and believe and try to see thro...
By: Shotgun011 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 4.4|
Added: 11 Dec 2015
- They say that home, is where the heart is, and it seems as though I am just looking for another chance to be allowed to breathe free again, and make me feel young again too. As I stand here watching...
By: Shotgun011 |
Category: Romance |
Score: 5|
Added: 25 Nov 2015
- Well I’m beginning to hear voices and there’s no one around, and I’m feeling all used up and the fields have turned brown, and I feel like I am waist deep in the ground mist with the feeling like I ...
By: Shotgun011 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 16 Nov 2015
- Once again not needing anyone crying if they find the story sad, as I once again make my way through all of those tired and worn out places. Moving against the tide of the evening’s faces which go by ...
By: Shotgun011 |
Category: Romance |
Score: 5|
Added: 14 Nov 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
- Gaze into the mirror, what do you see? Be honest, what gazes back at thee? Peer deep into those beautiful eyes. They tell a story not filled with lies. Every happening in your life. Every sadne...
By: CKAcres |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 07 May 2015
- I'm not sure where to begin, although changes have come hurtling down, we have been through some things together and stood through stormy weather with trunks of memories. We might have missed that shi...
By: Shotgun011 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 4.8|
Added: 27 Apr 2015
- One cold misty early morning heard a warning bourne in the air, in an age when, and in a place where no one seemed to have an hour to care or spare. As the days now seem to be growing shorter as well ...
By: Shotgun011 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 19 Apr 2015
- Sunday finds me in my usual pew awaiting the procession to the altar for the start of mass. As I notice a conversation taking place two or three rows in front of me, just like a scene from Schindler’s...
By: Shotgun011 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 05 Apr 2015
- When September Ends,- Walking here in the North Country Fair under grey skies with the temperature dropping to hover somewhere below zero. Walking down the hill that will take me to the “heart of d...
By: Shotgun011 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 4.8|
Added: 31 Mar 2015
- I seem to have been searching all of the passing days as I make my way down the line, trying to find those things there in my mind as the days slowly turn into night. Remembering when I leaned quietly...
By: Shotgun011 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 10 Mar 2015
- The other day an old friend gave me some good advice concerning friendship, which is a thing that isn't always given, but is earned like respect is, and is a law I hold sacred. He said to leave my fea...
By: Shotgun011 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 08 Mar 2015
- Sitting here remembering some of the things that they used to tell me: About the fact I ain’t goin’ nowhere unless I got up early in the morning to realize all of my responsibilities while shouldering...
By: Shotgun011 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 06 Mar 2015
- I'm listening to the rain, As it falls outside my window. The water splashes on the pane, like a song of the sky. It's nights like this I think through life, And tonight I wonder why it's so hard. ...
By: Kayk |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 27 May 2014
- Looking back over my life I have always been shy and felt very alone. Learning very early on, that not every person is kind or caring. However the day we started talking That slowly begun to change....
By: aussie_kitty77 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 14 Feb 2014
- Coach B is the Quiet Coach. It is a good place to think, to reflect and from which to draw inspiration. It is a silent movie and my mind writes the title cards. I always travel in Coach B, though i...
By: clum |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 18 May 2013
- Last spring I paddled up Joy Creek. The water was high and I couldn't get far. The cathedral arch of green branches whispered. The noon sun sparkled like stained glass. Last summer I paddled up Joy...
By: fallingdove |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 28 Mar 2013
- Cleaning a mirror I rub it hard Am I rubbing away the reflection I see? A mother, a wife, a caretaker, a cook Don’t see a woman I used to be. I see long weary nights under my eye...
By: sea |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.7|
Added: 30 Sep 2012
- Many great ideas are accidents-- so are melodies and first lines of poems and how about the dreams you bump into in the middle of the night that wake you with what you need to know. Sometime...
By: Sisyphus |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 04 May 2012
- The Beach of Nothingness To the beach of nothingness is where I go, When the pressures of life Seem to take its toll. I slip off the flip-flops of my mind, As I allow the cool sands of fat...
By: revrjm |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.5|
Added: 30 Apr 2012
- So, I don't know why, but I got to thinking today...(I know scary huh?) How well do we ever really know anyone? I know its not a new question by any means, and no doubt there have been many papers,...
By: LittleSister_ |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 06 Mar 2012
- Strikes at the heart and oft times will not release me for days I brood, my world a small focus inside my head At times no bigger than myself and the world just fades away. I lock myself away...
By: LittleSister_ |
Category: Musings |
Score: 4.7|
Added: 18 Feb 2012
- Someone once asked me why I never write in the perspective of a woman. If the popular saying amongst writers is "write what you know," then that'll be your goddamn answer. I don't know. Am I just too ...
By: Patrick |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 05 Jan 2012
- Somehow brought up on the rules of the game Somehow brought up to the plate Somehow brought up to look straight in the eye Somehow brought up to lead off the base Somehow brought up to...
By: MarkButkus |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4|
Added: 20 Nov 2011
- I always remember you’re not here. Such a smiling countenance, so much orangeness so very gone I hear you in the silence of the passageway the silence of the house and the silence of the yard ...
By: Clarabelle |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.7|
Added: 11 Oct 2011
- On a cloudy day like today, I think of loss Friendships Lovers Family members Opportunities Not what I wanted To happen In my life. Cloudy days Allow me to Reflect on my Life...
By: ladysharon |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 22 May 2011
- She was just another kid, really. Another eight-year-old that amounted to excess baggage being carted around by a parent. A dead weight, a liability, something not to be fussed over, but to be looked...
By: XuanMai |
Category: Musings |
Added: 14 Apr 2011