Archive for Inspirational
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THE SMALL PRINT • by Krystyna Smallman
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Yes, I’m bitter. I am a lemon heaving with caustic juices. I am corrosive. I am an electric eel poised to shoot ten thousand volts into the next thing that moves. What is more, it’s raining and there’s a veritable hurricane blowing away, leaves and litter swirling round me. Bloody weather.
Inspirational, Stories
I stab at the doorbell.
Immediately, [...]
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THE WAY NOT TO WISH • by Jay Faulkner 25 Comments
It was always tomorrow. Never right now. Never in five minutes. Every time he asked to do something, anything, it was always the same. Ever since his mother had died his father just didn’t seem to have any time to spare.
Inspirational, Stories
Johnny was beginning to think his father didn’t even listen to his questions anymore, but simply [...]
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GOLDEN SPARKS • by Anthony Cowin 12 Comments
I had never ridden a bicycle before my thirtieth birthday. I had tried once as a child but fell off and broke my arm the second my dad let go of the seat. I remember him hunched over the handlebars as he wheeled that shiny red machine back to the shop. My life as a [...]
Fantasy, Inspirational, Stories
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SAFE IN SPARROW • by Sylvia Hiven 19 Comments
She waits for the bus.
Inspirational, Stories
Her feet hurt. She wishes there was a bench. But there isn’t, of course. That would be too easy. The bus stop with just a rusted sign, with no shade from the sun or cover from the rain — that’s her bus stop. That’s her life.
A misty autumn drizzle swirls around [...]
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GIANT SNOWFLAKES • by Mary Baader Kaley 24 Comments
I knew he was in trouble. Kindergartners don’t know how to control things. Frankie’s Ice Glider hit a large knot in the ground fifteen feet from the bottom of Sled Hill. His little body bounced up. His head hit the ground first and his knit hat went flying. His left side came down, and he [...]
Inspirational, Stories
