THE WRITER TRANSCENDS -poetry by guest author Candace Meredith
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There just isn’t and has never been a path so straight where there aren’t curves that don’t bend like taking trails made of hills. The...
Stephanie Daich
- Mar 3
- 15 min
THE BODY -Fiction
I could have just left him there. After all, it was a dead body, and I had my kiddos to think about. I had seen dead bodies before at...
Stephanie Daich
- Mar 2
- 1 min
RIVERS -Poetry by guest author Dixie Cragun
Why must raging rivers Spring suddenly into view? Unannounced, They swallow All our hopes and expectations That formed When the way was...
Stephanie Daich
- Mar 1
- 4 min
I SHOULDN'T HAVE HURT THE DOG -Speculative Fiction
It began the usual way, in the back of the salon, yet this was no typical salon. The dump was nestled between a fish stand and bakery in...
Stephanie Daich
- Feb 28
- 1 min
DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE -Poetry by guest author Lynn White
I woke in the sunshine and stretched sleepily. That was when I saw the hole under the tree where a scraggy, stripy cat had spat and...
Stephanie Daich
- Feb 27
- 1 min
GOSSIP, SLANDER, GOSSIP -Poetry
The hypocrisy drips off your pious face. Your mask twisted in a smile. It's not genuine; you do it all for show. Yet, behind my back,...
Stephanie Daich
- Feb 26
- 1 min
EXPOSED AND ALONE -Poetry
There was hope we clung to often. A pillar of strength! To hold us up. At nightfall, when the darkness entered, Moving, consuming, we...
Stephanie Daich
- Feb 25
- 1 min
2021 -Poetry
As they shut business doors, As the races are in wars, As vaccine debates turn heated, Our generation feels defeated. Some feel...
Stephanie Daich
- Feb 23
- 2 min
THE FUTURE -poetry by guest author Candace Meredith
Dry here in this city Drowning in still waters Where the dark gray looms Across the fluorescent Streetlights that are flickering. There...
Stephanie Daich
- Feb 22
- 1 min
ODE TO THE LAST MINUTE HOUSEKEEPER -poetry by guest author Dixie Cragun
There's company knocking at the door, And the house, it looks a mess! There are floors to mop and shelves to dust, So my friends, I can...
Stephanie Daich
- Feb 20
- 1 min
THEY PRESERVE IT ALL -Poetry
When fruit ripens on the tree, As honey is produced by the bee, And the ground gives its yield, A splendid sight in the field. The...
Stephanie Daich
- Feb 19
- 1 min
TO KEEP MY PROMISE -Poetry
I made a promise as a child, When life was easy and mild. I didn't know the impact, Of such a life-long contract. Should I be held to the...
Stephanie Daich
- Feb 18
- 21 min
THE DREAM TAKER -Speculative Fiction
It was hard to listen to the elders, especially after watching the Dream Maker fulfill everyone's dreams. Wasn't my dreams worthy? "Atsa,...
Stephanie Daich
- Feb 17
- 1 min
LOVED BY YOU -Poetry
It was, it feels, thousands of years ago, In a home you built with love, I grew, Where my childhood played in those walls, Where I was...
Stephanie Daich
- Feb 15
- 1 min
BE YOUR OWN -Poetry
Social Norms Internal storms Judge and stare Lack of care Gossip and hate Humiliate Control another Personality smother Lead astray Wilt...
Stephanie Daich
- Feb 14
- 1 min
IT'S TOO MUCH WORK TO BE YOUR FRIEND -Poetry
You say you're my friend, but you don't call. You say you're my friend, but I am alone when I fall. You talk, and you share, but you...
Stephanie Daich
- Feb 13
- 1 min
AWAKE MY CITIZEN -Poetry
Awake my citizen, and you shall see, All the forces that don’t want us free, Of propaganda misguided For the purpose of making us...
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