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Jack Ketchum was inspired by Elmore Leonard

This was a little surprise when i saw that on the Goodreads page for him, the horror novelist who passed away in 2018, and who was praised highly by King. Ketchum's most popular and perhaps most disturbing book will be among the books to be gott...

Do you still write real letters?

Paper and pen..that kind of thing

There are many first days, but much less second days, and so on with less and less. There is a craving for there to be a continuousness that will flow from the first, onwards just as before or poetically stemming from the beginning. This may not be...

Twelve word story

Perhaps, this is my atonement. Forgetting what I most wanted to remember.

Span of Attention

8 seconds, that's how long we tend to hold attention nowadays. This means by the time I get to the 3rd sentence, I will have already bored your brain. If you wish to learn something more and don't want your memory to evolve into that of a...

Everyone knows about the bird, the one that can only speak in 300 characters or less. Confess what you like and watch it get buried under hundreds of other people trying to prove they are right. Let me write something really quick and make an impac...

The Babysitter (Part 2)

She slowly backed up, away from the sofa, and looked all around her. But nothing else seemed out of place. RING!!! Her cell phone rang, startling her. She quickly went to answer it. It was the Johnsons just checking in. Claire was relieved. She t...

The Babysitter (Part 1)

Claire was so excited about her first night babysitting for the Johnsons down the street. Her younger sister Rose watched her get ready for the new job. She was so proud of her big sister. Their move drove her to the Johnsons, she was a few minute...

A poem called "Life"

Life Carrie Law Morgan Figgs 1 A moment of pleasure, An hour of pain, A day of sunshine, A week of rain, A fortnight of peace, A month of strife, These taken together Make up life. 2 One real friend To a...

One more .......

The yelping of my heart is in a dark room.

Ugh...why SW ..just why ?....

Tongue tied,secret ,heart wrenching kismet ,feels like broken bones,aches like old wounds that never close ,black liquid turns to dust ,Old torned souls ...

You won't happen to know where I can find a dragon, Jack Frost and a basket of pygmy puffs, would you? Write me an excerpt if you do.

If someone is asking you to change your core self.....

RUN don't walk in the other direction. I feel surrounded by toxic people as of late. I have cut large amounts of them out of my life but now am focused on family. It is so hard to cut out toxic family members. Simply for the fact that they A...

Listening to music this morning in the quiet I thought of you. Both tears of sadness and tears of joy. You gave so much to us. We miss you so much. A true artist I miss your insight and your love. We connected through nature and music and withou...

I am the girl...

I am the girl who feels as though she is trapped in time. A girl who was loved by friends and family, not some but all of my life. I am the girl who was provided with the world. I crumbled my opportunities like rubles within my fingertips. I loved a ...

When I wake up in the morning, there is a song in my head.

Every day. It’s my very own clock radio set to an unknown station. Most days I know the song, other days I don’t. For a time I kept track of the music. I had an idea that maybe it coincided with my emotions. How i was responding to what was going on...

A new beginning

Today I get the vaccine. I have mixed feelings about it tbh. Living in California durning the Pandemic or as my bestie says "pandademic" (hehe) has been super hard. We have been pretty much closed up since it all began. Where other cou...

Novel Cover Ideas

To help me get in the zone for writing my novel series I like to create covers to inspire me using the general ideas I have. I'd really like to be a graphic designer and think graphic design is where my fortey lies. Heres one of the covers I ma...

My novel franchise idea

It's an idea I've had for sometime and it branches into a 15 part novel franchise that I also have in the "oven" so to speak. CIA Black Op Commander James Carter, and his Second in Command calm and calculating Tarquin Georges lea...

What's your Corona Virus story?

Hi. I'm from the Philippines, a Political Science student, and I would like to share a few disturbing news about my country. I know the world is suffering from this virus outbreak and variants of it has already spread globally. The thing is, our...

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