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Across The Merderet. Runner-Up in Parallel Lives Challenge.
I sped off to the recruiting post in Galena. Even though my birth certificate at St. Michaels said that Joseph F. Higgins was Born 1927 not 1926 like I told the recruiter, I wasn’t going to let that one year stop me. Hell or high water I was going to be a paratrooper.
By Matthew J. Fromm5 months ago in Fiction
The Forgotten Kingdom of Mohenjo-Daro
story Long before Rome, before Egypt’s pyramids, and even before the Great Wall of China — there stood a city so advanced that its secrets still amaze scientists today. That city was Mohenjo-Daro, the “Mound of the Dead.”
By Shohel Rana5 months ago in Fiction
🌧️ The Weight of Raindrops. AI-Generated.
The rain began the day Samuel decided to stop waiting. He stood at the edge of the pier, his reflection trembling in the dark water, and wondered if the sky could feel as heavy as his chest.
By shakir hamid5 months ago in Fiction
🍂 Arise, Fair Leaf. AI-Generated.
The wind carried whispers through the forest that morning—soft voices of trees remembering the warmth of summer. The world was shedding its color, one leaf at a time. All but one.
By shakir hamid6 months ago in Fiction
The Moon’s Secret Friend
The Moon was used to being watched. For millennia, every human eye that looked up saw her. They wrote poems about her solitude, her quiet vigil in the cold, dark sky. They called her lonely.
By Habibullah6 months ago in Fiction
Through a Cat’s Eyes By Black Cat
I. Rainy Nights I sit at the window’s edge, watching lamplight cast the man’s shadow long and uneven across the wall. That same light lifts his round face from darkness — something pensive there, something still.
By Dylan Nguyen6 months ago in Fiction
The Last Message from Tokyo: A Wrong Number That Saved My Life
The Last Message from Tokyo It was snowing again that night in Tokyo. The city looked quiet, almost sacred, beneath the streetlights. From the rooftop of my small apartment, I could see trains sliding like silver veins through the darkness. I had been in Japan for two years, studying engineering, but lately I felt more like a ghost than a student.
By Nimatullah6 months ago in Fiction
The Man Who Spoke to the Night. AI-Generated.
They said he only came out after midnight. In a city that never slept, Noctis Varen was the quiet pulse between the ticking hours — a man of silence, a shadow among neon lights. He ran a small photography shop near the harbor, open from dusk till dawn. Most people thought it strange, but he said the world only shows its truth at night.
By shakir hamid6 months ago in Fiction
The Day I Decided the Universe Was Listening
For most of my life, I thought positive thinking was a polite way of denying reality. People who said “you attract what you believe” seemed to live in a fantasy world. Meanwhile, I was stuck in mine — overworked, underpaid, and constantly anxious. I wasn’t unhappy because I lacked things; I was unhappy because I believed I didn’t deserve more.
By Atif khurshaid6 months ago in Fiction
The Shelter of Urban Decay?
You know the address. You know where "that" area is. What do you call it? The ghetto? The bad neighborhood? Gangsta's Paradise? Was it you who said, "I wouldn't be caught dead there?" Yeah. I was morbidly curious, but that's not how I got there.
By Shanon Angermeyer Norman6 months ago in Fiction
The Day the World Went Quiet. AI-Generated.
It happened on a Tuesday — the kind of Tuesday you forget as soon as it ends. Until you don’t. I woke up and the world was... silent. Not metaphorically — literally. No cars outside. No dogs barking. Not even the hum of the refrigerator that usually filled the space between my thoughts.
By James Taylor6 months ago in Fiction
The Letters I Never Sent. AI-Generated.
I have a box of letters under my bed. I’ve written them over years — to people I’ve lost, people I’ve loved, people I was too afraid to speak to. None of them have ever been sent.
By James Taylor6 months ago in Fiction