Featured Author: @rdsmas
That night in the bar that never left
Source
We returned to the venue and she said she would pay for the next round, I took a napkin, writing on it a poem of consummate drunkenness, she read it, signing it with her purple lips, then put it away in her miniature purse.
Innocently I brushed her hand, and she returned another smile, raised her glass and recited a Dickinson poem:
Love - is before Life -
subsequent - to Death -
initial of Creation, and
of earth the Exponet.
Featured Author: @teknon
Frozen Hearts, Warm Endings
Pixabay
"Hi Olive" his voice made my palms sweat again. I shut my eyes fighting to hold back the tears I had kept in for so long. He brought his hands close to mine and I shuddered. A minute later I got a grip of myself and let words that snagged in my chest out.
"What right do you have to hold my hands after gaslighting me? You think you can just appear from wherever after two months of acting like a child and then I'd give you my hands? What do you think of me? Because I expected more doesn't mean you can treat me like a nobody and get away with it?" He was mute as I went on and on. He let me finish and I felt a lot relieved.
Featured Author: @gabmr
Snow Falls Different Sometimes
Pixabay
"Guys, I don't want to be a spoilsport, but we have to find Santa Klaus," Zut said loudly, clutching his head.
"Santa's around?" asked Mirta with twinkles in her eyes.
"Yes, and you'll probably help us find him!"
"Me?" scratched Mirta's head as Caribou carried her on his back like a mini queen.
"Young Santa Klaus needs to return to training at the North Pole so in the future make the children of the world happy," Zut clarified.
Featured Author: @jessicaossom
Eagerly Awaiting Eagles
Pixabay
The days crept by slowly. Then one sunny afternoon, Olujimi’s acute hearing detected a chorus of shrill demanding peeps floating on the breeze. Gazing upwards, his breath caught sharply. High on an outer iroko branch perched three wide-eyed, unsteady gray eaglets only a few weeks old clad in fluffy down, aggressively snapping compact beaks. As Olujimi watched enthralled, the majestic female soared into view clutching a snake in her formidable talons. With an echoing cry she landed gracefully, tearing sections off with her razor beak and patiently delivering blood-rich morsels into each scrawny open throat.
Featured Author: @iskawrites
Yes, too much sugar is bad for you
Pixabay
It was when I saw Tamara, who was my cousin's name, take up another cube of sugar after dissolving the first three in her plate that I spoke up.
“Tamara that's enough.” There was a firmness to my tone that made everyone at the table turn to me.
“What is it, Treasure?” her eyes were raised directly at me.
“How can you use four cubes of sugar for a bowl of cereal?”
My mother chuckled somewhere in between, turning the table's attention to herself.
“You think I'm teasing her when I call her sugar girl? It's literal. When I complained to her parents the last time, they said she has a sweet tooth.”
Featured Author:
@wrestlingdesires
Sometimes Surprises Are Better
"Sorry Dad, I hope I didn't wake you. I'm just so excited about Santa coming with my new console! I can't believe I'll be able to start the new year with Aliens Mind-controlled. I can't wait!"
Dad looked away. "What if Santa ran out of them, and had to make more? He might even make another delivery run in a couple of months if that happened."
John laughed. "Very funny, Dad. Santa always has enough. He's magic."
"Right... hand me one of those cookies, will you?"
When John got back to his room, he did a silent fist pump in victory. "Now he has to find one."
Featured Author: @restcity
I Wish You Were
Pexels
I fingered the water out of my eyes. “Shiloh, hop on!”
I drove us back down the road to our house, and as soon as we were inside I grilled her. “Where were you?”
“The school bus didn’t come. Me and some other kids were waiting for hours. When it still didn’t come by 4:45, I walked home. When I was walking I saw the bus drive by and everybody was laughing at me and crap.
“Oh,” I said, grabbing my phone and bringing Shiloh to the couch. “Is that why you’re crying?”
“No,” Shiloh sniffled. “I’m crying because…because at school I said I wished you would die because you’re so mean to me, but I don’t really wish you would die, and as I was walking home I had a terrible thought about if you died at home, and I would never forgive myself."
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"Sorry Dad, I hope I didn't wake you. I'm just so excited about Santa coming with my new console! I can't believe I'll be able to start the new year with Aliens Mind-controlled. I can't wait!"
Dad looked away. "What if Santa ran out of them, and had to make more? He might even make another delivery run in a couple of months if that happened."
John laughed. "Very funny, Dad. Santa always has enough. He's magic."
"Right... hand me one of those cookies, will you?"
When John got back to his room, he did a silent fist pump in victory. "Now he has to find one."
Featured Author: @restcity
I Wish You Were
Pexels
I fingered the water out of my eyes. “Shiloh, hop on!”
I drove us back down the road to our house, and as soon as we were inside I grilled her. “Where were you?”
“The school bus didn’t come. Me and some other kids were waiting for hours. When it still didn’t come by 4:45, I walked home. When I was walking I saw the bus drive by and everybody was laughing at me and crap.
“Oh,” I said, grabbing my phone and bringing Shiloh to the couch. “Is that why you’re crying?”
“No,” Shiloh sniffled. “I’m crying because…because at school I said I wished you would die because you’re so mean to me, but I don’t really wish you would die, and as I was walking home I had a terrible thought about if you died at home, and I would never forgive myself."
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