Stephanie Daich
TRAGIC END -Poetry
The body submits "I can’t resist your power" and in an instant twelve years of sobriety has come to a tragic end...
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Stephanie Daich
Mar 81 min read
TALISMAN SABRE -Poetry
China’s ships lurk around the corner. Watching from the bay; stealthy foreigner. TALISMAN SABRE. TALISMAN SABRE. The US and Australia...
Stephanie Daich
Mar 78 min read
LADIES OF WELLBORN-Short Fiction
“Listen, ladies, we can’t permit someone like Janice to move on our private street. She is trash. That is apparent. What? She thinks that...
Stephanie Daich
Mar 61 min read
YOUR ACCOUNTABILITY -Poetry
Why do you sit there mad at the world? Why do you blame others but never yourself? Do you feel the world owes you something? Do you not...
Stephanie Daich
Mar 42 min read
THE WRITER TRANSCENDS -poetry by guest author Candace Meredith
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 315 min read
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 21 min read
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 14 min read
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 281 min read
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 271 min read
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 261 min read
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 251 min read
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 232 min read
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 221 min read
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 201 min read
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 191 min read
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 1821 min read
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 171 min read
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...
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