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Category: Creativity

Hey, It’s DNA (Poem/Podcast) by Risa Peris

February 14, 2025 periswriter

Podcast for February 14, 2025 The biggest trick they pulled was saying all of you was DNA Mommy humiliated you,…

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Posted in: Article, Creativity, Poem, Political, Social Issues Filed under: freedom of speech, poem, politics

The Path of Poets by Risa Peris (Poem)

February 6, 2025 periswriter

I was born. I was born in the fever of winter when the silver surfs cracked into granite and the…

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Posted in: Creativity, End of the World, Poem, Political, Religion Filed under: death, poem, politics

Posit (Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah)

August 31, 2024 periswriter

I know you. I know your body smells everywhere I go. I see the smell rising in the street after…

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Posted in: Creativity, Fiction

Sanctuary (story by Ayiah Mensah)

periswriter

We hunt for shadows through the dark, hidey passages in the sixteenth-century building with a sloth as a walking partner.…

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Posted in: Creativity, Dark Humour, Fiction, Horror
bp coyle, brian

A Happy Story (bp coyle)

April 18, 2020 coylewriter

Tell me a story please. I asked. I could really do with someone telling me a story. Okay then. She…

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Posted in: Creativity, Fiction
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Looking Down (story by Jim Woessner)

April 7, 2020 coylewriter

“What’s going on?” It was a uniformed Bridge Patrol officer dismounting his bicycle in the center of the span. “It’s…

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Posted in: Creativity, Dark Humour, Fiction
bp coyle, brian

Master of the Universe (bp coyle)

February 6, 2020 coylewriter

I don’t get it, I don’t understand at all. All of these people, talking when they have nothing to say.…

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Posted in: Creativity, Fiction
bp coyle, brain

What’s There To Think About? (bp coyle)

January 12, 2020 coylewriter

‘Have you finished it yet?’ she asks, all eager and excited. ‘Just finished it this second,’ I place the copy…

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Posted in: Creativity, Humour

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