In front of him, for nearly every minute he was awake, there was a screen.
He tried to recall a time when it wasn't this way. He couldn't, so he watched old movies to try to remember.
"Yeah
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Short Fiction
In front of him, for nearly every minute he was awake, there was a screen.
He tried to recall a time when it wasn't this way. He couldn't, so he watched old movies to try to remember.
"Yeah
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In 2020, the anniversary of the victory over Nazism is celebrating. Seventy-five years ago, my great-grandfather returned from the war. He was terribly injured but alive. I am writing this essay not ... [+]
Bright arc lights raced from the rising sun,slicing through the humid invasion of a midsummer heatwave.The gross feeling of stifled calmness visually emptied through the straight edge posture of The ... [+]
In the year 2020, all across the United States, Americans still live segregated from one another based on the hue of our skin. There has never been a Martin Luther King, no Civil Rights Act, no ... [+]
“Repent! For the kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” How many thousands of times had he heard his father preach this? Noah remembered the conversation as he watched the bodies rise from the ground ... [+]
“Let’s keep looking,” Dad insists. His ruddy, calloused thumbs peel through a bouquet of antique vinyls, smearing each contact with a greasy residue.
It’s Christmas evening. A rich
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“You Don’t have to do this”
“Why? If anything, I am the only person who should do this.”
“You can’t change the way the world works you know, things happen and
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(The Announcement)
BLACK OUT by DeeMaria 24Jul2020
The morning came as it always does. I awoke with the sudden urge to call my daughter. “Hey Mom!” she said, as I heard he
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in the refugee camp Moria on the island of Lesbos, women will avoid the toilets at night for fea ... [+]
I remember the cool and sweet taste of pink lemonade
On those warm summer days
The ice
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The girl had been accustomed to change for her whole life. Change is what happened when she moved from Cleveland, the place where she was born, to Boston. There were no memories from this place ... [+]
Triggers are not absolute. They can be the color red, a sunny day, an indecipherable half-smile. For me, there is no obvious reason why the walls close in. No hidden meaning for the sudden shallow ... [+]
Just like that, the world
went absolutely still.
They sit looking
Just beyond
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"When the assault on a maternity clinic in Kabul on Tuesday was over, 18 newborn babies were left ... [+]
An on/off switch
Your last sensory memories
A nostalgic egg
Cracked
As the slimy
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