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Category: Fiction

Squandered (Story by Risa Peris)

November 7, 2019 Brian Coyle

Composed and performed by Risa Peris “For having traffic with thy self alone, Thou of thy self thy sweet self…

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Posted in: Employment, Fiction Filed under: employment, fiction
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I’m Not Sure Where I’ll Be Sleeping Tonight (bp coyle)

November 6, 2019 coylewriter

Jim’s a good friend, always has been, but I know when I am no longer welcome. I’ve been crashing on…

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Posted in: Family, Fiction

The Image in the Lake (Story by Risa Peris)

November 5, 2019 periswriter

Story based on Shakespeare’s Sonnet 3 But if thou live, remembered not to be, Die single and thine image dies…

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Posted in: Family, Fiction Filed under: family, fiction

In Honor of the Day of the Dead (Story by Risa Peris)

November 1, 2019 Brian Coyle

  Dita and the House of Faces Dita lives in an old and quite dusty Victorian mansion, stuffed precariously on…

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Posted in: Childhood, Crime, Family, Fiction Filed under: family, fiction

Never Leaving Wonderland (Story by Risa Peris)

October 31, 2019 Brian Coyle

Composed and performed by Risa Peris   All in all, it was a white rabbit that got me in trouble.…

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Posted in: Childhood, Crime, Fiction

No (Story by Risa Peris) (A reimagining of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 1)

October 29, 2019 Brian Coyle

“Feed’st thy light’s flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thy Self thy foe, to thy sweet…

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Posted in: Childhood, Crime, Fiction Filed under: crime, family, fiction

Crow Missive (Poem by Risa Peris)

October 25, 2019 Brian Coyle

Music composed by Beethoven performed by Risa Peris   that’s all you need sometimes a suggestion of death like upselling…

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Posted in: Fiction, Poem Filed under: childhood, death, poem, suicide

Green (Story by Risa Peris)

October 23, 2019 Brian Coyle

Music composed and performed by Risa Peris     Like a beast from worn, ancient hills and hidden caves riddled…

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Posted in: Fiction, Poem Filed under: Adam and eve, bible, fiction
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Gossip (bp coyle)

October 22, 2019 coylewriter

I sighed quietly after opening the gate and discovering my wife sipping coffee on the porch with her sister. It…

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Posted in: Fiction

Funeral (Story by Risa Peris)

October 21, 2019 Brian Coyle

  I was the coffin maker’s daughter. Papa made the most lovely coffins. Deep, roomy, lined in French silk, smoothed…

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Posted in: Crime, Family, Fiction, Horror

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