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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
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The Final Page (bp coyle)

November 4, 2019 coylewriter

Well, I finally did it. I finished War and Peace! I first tried to read it when I was sixteen.…

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Posted in: Dark Humour

A Fortune (Story by Risa Peris)

November 3, 2019 Brian Coyle

“When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, and dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field…Then being asked, where all thy…

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Posted in: Folklore Filed under: 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
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Half Past Two (bp coyle)

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I check the clock again. Almost half past two in the morning. I put my book on the bedside dresser…

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Posted in: Family

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
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King of the Road (bp coyle)

October 30, 2019 coylewriter

For as long as I recall, Uncle Davy sang ‘King of the Road’ at every family get together. No birthday…

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Posted in: Family

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

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