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Category: Fiction

The Center by Risa Peris (Short Story)

February 13, 2025 periswriter

In the center of the world was a kingdom; in the center of the kingdom was a forest; in the…

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Posted in: Adventure, Fantasy, Fiction, Folklore, Religion Filed under: culture, fiction, religion

My Body is a Crime by Risa Peris (Poem)

February 10, 2025 periswriter

Podcast Memento mori, remember death. Do you remember life in death? I remember death in life. A body tortured is…

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Posted in: Fiction, History, Poem, Political, Social Issues

The Sweet Way by Jon Barry

February 6, 2025 periswriter

Suicide was inevitable, we were born for each other. But how to, crawling through my years. Not what method, exactly:…

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Posted in: Crime, Dark Humour, Fiction, Mental Health Filed under: suicide

Beauty and the Beach by Robin Mills

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I stare down my reclined, naked body. Legs extended, ankles crossed, bay breeze gently grazing me. I gaze past my…

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Posted in: Dark Humour, Fiction, Romance Filed under: beach, romance, women

The Wasteland Grows (Chapter 1, Part 1) – Novel by Risa Peris

February 4, 2025 periswriter

“I’ll pop a bitch.” That was Miranda. Tawny skin, wavy hair, with a saucy sailor’s tongue who always seemed on…

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Posted in: Fiction, Political, Social Issues, Thriller Filed under: cia, coup, politics, thriller, usa

The Copy by Risa Peris (Short Story)

February 2, 2025 periswriter

There are moments in our lives when we achieve clarity – a sharp, crystallized, hyper-real vision – and grasp, with…

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Posted in: Fiction, Friendship, Futuristic, Science Fiction Filed under: ai, android, dogs, future, love, pets

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)

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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

Ma by Risa Peris (Flash Fiction)

June 3, 2024 periswriter

I kept scratching at the wound with a scaly scab. Ma kept yelling at me not to scratch. “It’ll leave…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction
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Buried Dreams (story by Marc Littman)

January 26, 2021 coylewriter

We buried my brother with his dreams. On colored scraps of paper my young son, Teddy, and I scrawled all…

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Posted in: Dark Humour, Fiction, Humour

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