- You were always there, around a distant corner, the far-away man, in the back of my mind. As my sister lay withering away in a hospital bed, it was you, with those ice-blue eyes, always smiling, that...
By: acarltoncraft1 |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 22 Jul 2021
- Dear Sam, I watch the June bugs crawl around as the fireflies float and light up my porch. It makes me want to let go, give in and be free. Part of me wants to tell you, you do light up this t...
By: acarltoncraft1 |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 21 Jul 2021
- I'm holding onto a book that doesn't belong to me. I've read its pages a thousand times but failed to see The words on the page no longer meant for me. Its title was hope, the author, my fantasy min...
By: gillianleeza |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 30 Sep 2020
- Are you waiting for me? Waiting for me to step aside, To bow out gracefully, All for you to have what’s mine. I’ve watched you slinking around, Sneaking in behind the scenes, Planting seeds and litt...
By: Molly |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 01 Jun 2020
- They had planned it as the holiday of a lifetime, but Jen had known all along that it was her final attempt to save their marriage. She'd had very little help from Alex, as usual, other than a few af...
By: bigfishybob |
Category: Thriller |
Score: 5|
Added: 12 Nov 2019
- Driving along the highway. POP. There it goes again, you think. Sounds like a rock hitting the side of the car. That can't be good. Might ruin the finish. This car is only five or six years old. ...
By: Survivor |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 27 Dec 2018
- It's been so lonely, you are thinking, and this happens. These simple words make you hope, it might be. You always recognize your own hope appearing. "Hello darlin'." That's what he said. He's flirt...
By: Survivor |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 02 Dec 2018
- Each moment we spend together Always means so much Reality showing that shared time Loving affection and heartfelt communication Are a most precious gift. But what about when things fall apar...
By: aussie_kitty77 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 25 Apr 2018
- "That's him, Momma." Cindy points at Simon across the schoolyard. Her mother looks at him and smiles. He's pleased but not sure exactly why. He's the new boy in kindergarten. Some other boy tells h...
By: Survivor |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 06 Jul 2017
- Don’t talk to me about love. I wrote the book on it. Literally. And for that sin, I alone am escaped to tell you the tale of the Battle of the Sexes and the End of Man. Okay, that’s not quite accur...
By: LousyNick |
Category: Science Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 02 Feb 2017
- The 7even Stages of Relationship Separation (Male Perspective) Stage One: HELL YEA I’m free, and nobody can take that from me. We weren’t meant to be encumbered by another person constantly suck...
By: BobDobalina |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 08 Nov 2016
- I remember my dress close-fitting and black imprisoning my body like shrink wrap I remember my hair long and dark brown with a narrow band of velvet tight over my frown I remember that day we made...
By: blackvamp1 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 21 Sep 2016
- He was never coming back She could accept that now The fights, the love The joy, despair Had seen their final round She let the calm flow over her Unable yet, to miss No mental checks of what h...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 22 Jul 2016
- You were just A challenge That’s all you were To me I don’t think I liked you much But wished You wanted me And wanting it So badly Needing To prevail Thinking Planning Plotting Determine...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 15 May 2016
- You sit across the table Not looking at my hand Which rests upon formica Revealing upturned palm Sweated glass of water Drip-stained coffee cups Congealed fat drops on a plate Witness us discuss ou...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 07 May 2016
- They say God is dead. I say God is reborn every single night whenever you make me scream his name. You see, no religion is as good as ours. No prayer sounds as beautiful as your heavy breathing besi...
By: palela |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 22 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
- It’s such a shame We never touched Or heard the other speak It’s such a shame We fell apart Before we got to meet It’s such a shame Words on a screen Were all the love we knew And such a shame ...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 04 Apr 2016
- I wasn't prepared To love you I wasn't prepared To stay I've tucked, and I've rolled Myself through The lion's share Of my days One foot out the door Purse in my hand Keeping all parts of me Safe ...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 27 Mar 2016
- Once By the flame flare in your eyes With pupils drawn I realized As you lit that cigarette Fire taking hold Upon its end Tendril smoke curls up And out Tobacco sulphur scents Swirl 'round That You...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 12 Mar 2016
- Lost in the void of what has been destroyed by those who have toyed with my mind, my soul, this big gaping hole. It seems it’s time again to take control. Rebuild the wall, deadbolt the door. Stop bei...
By: adi_me |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 08 Feb 2016
- Don’t look Why not? How can it hurt? Don’t ask Why not? I want to learn It’s done It’s gone Untied to you I want The facts What did he do? Pretend There’s not A way to know In times Of yor...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 02 Nov 2015
- It suddenly occurred to me I’m feeling a cliché What else can possibly explain Perceiving things this way? My arms are arms, and end in hands Not wings of gossamer I walk on ground and do not float ...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 22 Oct 2015
- . The days are shorter, They grow colder, They grow dimmer, A breeze from the north. Green fades to gray, Not steady each day, But slowly, inexorably, The summer will fade. I feel it in my bones...
By: Nox |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 21 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
- She stands before you So sincere Her heart is on display Cradled in her outstretched hands Held so tenderly You melt to see her standing there You want so to believe And to accept her offering Your...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 03 Sep 2015
- I tried to research sources I could find no proof I tried to seek out references I guess they all had moved I thought up some trick questions They did seem answered right And who says "lie detec...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 16 Aug 2015
- Every time you’re mean to me Or when you let me down In my head I hear a "dink" A hollow metal sound Not the clear ring of a bell Or soothing music chime Nor the striking of a clock Marking out the ...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 10 Aug 2015
- I saw you weak And hated you The way you clung to me Your need so claustrophobic I could barely breathe And yet I felt responsible Not able to break free Each time that I would take a step Your gras...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 09 Aug 2015
- you are not my gleaming sun you are not the soft, rhythmic beating of my heart you are not constant, sweet music to my ears, nor are you beauty and grace and personified you are not my winge...
By: palela |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 28 Jul 2015
- Consumed by sadness I pen this verse I saw your life Can't imagine much worse I pray for you strength To make your escape So that your sweet children Won't grow up this way You're not a friend But...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 24 Jul 2015
- The Christmas tree was up by the first weekend in December and fully decorated by Sunday night, just before prime-time TV, but all feelings of accomplishment faded when Renfield the cat jumped headlo...
By: verbal |
Category: Drama |
Score: 4.8|
Added: 21 Jul 2015
- Somewhere, I lost it But I’m glad it’s gone No need to fret Over what I’ve done wrong There is a freedom When you don’t need to try A certain freedom To just say good-bye No effort needed Nothing ...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 19 Jul 2015
- Act as though you love me I’ve been fooled before I’m sure with little effort You will make me yours Pretend you are devoted That I’m your only one Break down my defenses Quell my urge to run Assu...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 17 Jul 2015
- Shatter my illusions Trample on my dreams Show me that the you I see Is not a real being Be a thoughtless dullard An egotistic cad Be the one about whom I Was warned of by my dad Break my heart in...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 10 Jul 2015
- You felt it So did I We both know what it was A sound that isn’t heard Signals the end of love A mating call reversed Coupling undone A sound that isn’t heard That says we’re not in love A note ...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 02 Jul 2015
- Paint my lips by kissing me Sculpt me in your arms This room shall be our studio Where we create our art Too fluid to be captured And set within a frame Too sacred to be noted Or garner any fame Y...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 20 Jun 2015
- When one is not enough You lie Fearing commitment Wanting less Lonely Wanting more Suffocated Excited by the new Afraid to lose the old Spread thin Juggling Never satisf...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 19 Jun 2015
- Cancel me I've had my run I offer nothing new Between my glossy covers Little interests you You've been skimming over me For months and months, it seems Or leaving me abandoned While you do other th...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 12 Jun 2015
- "Take a walk with me," I say Holding out my hand Your fingers touch and mesh with mine We head out on the sand Where the water meets the shore Its grains so cooly packed Leaving pointed footprints T...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 10 Jun 2015
- The whir of your approach is felt Preceding your arrival Electric waves pulse through the air The atmosphere alive With silver shivers of your touch Before I feel your hands And visceral excitement ...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 31 May 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
- Closing door Lock clicks Body numb Heart sick Not again Leaving Sorrowful Ending Slumping down Trembling Wonder why Thinking Someone else Could be Do I know Maybe Last time Left me Came back Beggi...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 25 May 2015
- Stab me with your words again Give me what I deserve Make me hate me make me hate Fillet my every nerve Tell me truths that we both know The demon that I am Slay the lying laughing ghoul Within in me ...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 12 May 2015
- You’re so good at what you do They just fall in love with you All your words are so sincere Everything they want to hear You read them like you would a script You melt hearts by kissing lips Lovin...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 07 May 2015
- A thread of truth Flits through your eyes But how can I believe? You’ve told so many, many lies And managed to deceive - My worn-out heart And mind And soul Bled my every drop - To see you stand befor...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 02 May 2015
- I needed you; Where were you? You promised me, you know - I needed you; Where were you? And then you didn’t show - I needed you; Where were you? It happened once again - I needed you; Where were y...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 26 Apr 2015
- Pecking, pecking At my brain She has a smile so pretty - Tapping, tapping In my head I have to know: "who is she?" Searching, searching On the net - What is their connection? Scrolling, scrollin...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 22 Apr 2015
- Though I can’t have your presence, You’re still in my mind, I can see you and feel you - I tell me: "you’re mine" - Together for always, Though you’re not near - In my dreams, we are lovers: The pi...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 11 Apr 2015
- I hold in my hands A letter from you - Words on paper Not read - Heard - Hearing, hearing Needing quiet - I fold by half And yet by half again - Your words piling upon themselves Tumbling - Sliding t...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 04 Apr 2015
- You misunderstood, That's not what I said - Was not with my mom - I was out with friends - You misunderstood, I said I'd be late - And we didn't confirm, I miswrote the date. This is all you and you...
By: TaliaRussell |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 02 Apr 2015
- It is a windswept house; yet still. The windowless walls are impenetrable; the lone tenant doesn’t bother to try the door, any more than she would aim a camera at the sky to make sure it’s the...
By: blackvamp1 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 13 Oct 2014
- You come to me at dusk with the faces of old lovers tattooed on your breasts. You say they don’t mean a thing, and then like Ariadne you hand me a ball of crimson thread so I can escape from the maz...
By: blackvamp1 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 0|
Added: 04 Oct 2014
- We talk to people online opening up about our lives hopefully they share theirs too But honestly, what do we know? Sharing stories, pictures, photos Of our interests, hopes dreams and poss...
By: aussie_kitty77 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.8|
Added: 03 Sep 2014
- "It's not my fault I said goodbye." ~~~ "You have to know that I'm sorry." ~~~ "He's just what I always wanted." ~~~ "He can be a little jealous." ~~~ "But he can be so sweet to me." ...
By: Survivor |
Category: Micro Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 27 Aug 2014
- COUPLES Two people meet. They smile. they giggle. They flirt. They joke. They laugh. They're giddy. They are intrigued. They are infatuated. They are smitten. They dance. They touch. They hope. The...
By: Calindra |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 01 Apr 2014
- To all my readers, please read the story twice, you will enjoy it even better. Warning! Please don't look at the last line before you read the story. It is a spoiler! "Wake up," I yelled. He...
By: drfeelgood |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 21 Mar 2014
- Ginny was irritated. Another day of single digit temperatures. She had the worst case of cabin fever ever - even if her "cabin" was a perfectly respectable $300,000 home in a lovely suburb in Madiso...
By: Calindra |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 5|
Added: 05 Mar 2014
- Nicole arrived home from the morning shift at the coffee shop to find her belongings—what few she had—piled outside the door to her apartment. Her clothes were stacked in a heap on the front stoop. A ...
By: mogoodrich |
Category: General |
Score: 5|
Added: 11 Feb 2014
- I sit here looking at my screen, chatting with friends, tweeting and reading email. I look up and see the setting sun beaming through into my life. I look out the window and watch the setting sun sin...
By: frogprince |
Category: Musings |
Score: 5|
Added: 19 Jan 2014
- After talking to you, I walked outside and leaned against the rail as I drag my cigarette and look out over the city. Wondering how this happened, how using the internet fills a need, a craving for a...
By: aussie_kitty77 |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.3|
Added: 21 Dec 2013
- Jeremy didn’t notice her when he boarded the subway. He was too focused on getting a seat, scanning the cars for any spaces not yet filled by commuters heading into the city. He saw a free spot on th...
By: mogoodrich |
Category: General |
Score: 5|
Added: 17 Dec 2013
- There it is that typical piece of lacy fabric sticking out from between the couch cushions. It catches my eye and I can't help but stare. That pretty, slinky garment is the end. I almost want to lau...
By: Ididntdoit |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 13 Jun 2013
- I fell in love with a boy who turned out to be my whole world. I allowed myself to give him everything. He had my heart, He had my soul, He had my mind, He had my everything. I wante...
By: Poppet |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 29 May 2013
- I remember when we met and things were new and exciting. Remember? I remember when we met and we spent endless hours together. Remember? I remember when we met we couldn't get enough of ea...
By: Poppet |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.9|
Added: 05 May 2013
- A simple coconut. The expression of something. The second sound, a dull sound, the second time a coconut fell onto the sand with an apathetic thunk . She rolled over onto her back, her neck careenin...
By: jpablo |
Category: Flash Fiction |
Score: 3.7|
Added: 27 Feb 2013
- Paul stood by the open tent flap, taking a few minutes to enjoy the beautiful gifts nature provided him for free. Looking to the eastern shore, he marveled at the red, orange and yellow explosion of p...
By: OldTexasWriter |
Category: Drama |
Score: 4|
Added: 19 Dec 2012
- Passion is a wonder but if left unleashed It will devour the sweet essence of Love Ripped apart like a rag doll, limp with no heart Left in a corner to ponder in gloom asking why I breathe easy t...
By: Isadora |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 24 May 2012
- I wonder how many packages like this are sent through the mail everyday. Dozens? Thousands? Millions? Tiny envelopes or large boxes filled with the belongs of someone you used to know. T-shirts, phot...
By: ChemicalSunrise |
Category: Musings |
Score: 4.2|
Added: 14 May 2012
- Ginny sat reading the paper as I stared at her. Her cup of tea was well on its way to going cold as she engrossed herself in another Celebrity scandal. I didn’t break my gaze as I sipped at my own co...
By: mikey1963 |
Category: Drama |
Score: 5|
Added: 10 Apr 2012
- I can love everybody And celebrate Their presence I can see beauty In their flaws Or in their pain. I can see their Sacred essence And see wonder In their struggles. I c...
By: courage2bfree |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 5|
Added: 06 Mar 2012
- We started out great just you and me in a friendship full of understanding, listening, and patience. It continued to grow, the longer we talked and the more we shared of each other’s dreams. Then ju...
By: texasgal70 |
Category: Musings |
Score: 4.3|
Added: 28 Feb 2012
- A rose is just a flower That’s how it seems When it blooms Its beauty It signifies Life, love and eternity If you just think it has a rose Then that’s what it will be But when you see...
By: christena |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.5|
Added: 03 Dec 2011
- As Sunset Amy dips into the sea She rises in my heart A tentative summer's smile An autumn's first kiss farewell We awkwardly said, "Hello" Proclaimed proudly from atop the Alondra Hotel Barra...
By: MarkButkus |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.3|
Added: 20 Oct 2011
- I got some c**e with this girl I met the other day 50 dollars split to numb the pain away life's a whole lot easier when your body's numb you sni**, snor (record skip)t, and swallow till you can't fee...
By: Patrick |
Category: Songs |
Score: 5|
Added: 02 Aug 2011
- Ah, the high school reunion, Seeing the same old faces, That you abhorred, All those years ago. Some have matured, Others stayed the same. Your best friend from, Way back when. Pick up right where, T...
By: ladysharon |
Category: Poetry |
Score: 4.3|
Added: 21 Feb 2011