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Showing posts with label 2024 Elements. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2024 Elements. Show all posts
Tuesday, 18 June 2024

'My World' by Abida Akram

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Fire Many voices. Fire ants are having their lunch as they crawl up my arms and legs. There is no ceasefire, nor will there be. No aid will ...
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'Ruby Cabernet' by Laura Cooney

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The thing was, she really didn’t see it coming.   She should probably have seen it coming, if this had been a movie, we’d all have seen it ...

'By Golden Threads' by Ellen Grace

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Saffie? Phoibe had red hair and green eyes and freckled cheeks. Saffie? Dottie stood off to the side, smirking. Saffie! Phoibe stepped close...

'Chocolate Pumpkin Bread' by Donna M Day

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Every Halloween, Mummy makes chocolate pumpkin bread. Every year, I come home to comforting cinnamon. Warm and sweet, with a sharp edge, lik...

'Margot MacDonald's Favourite Lesson' by Laura Cooney

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The spring breeze blew through the open window disturbing the jotters on the desk. Mrs MacDonald was in the middle of an experiment, and let...

'Bright Lights' by Donna M Day

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'Richard William Whittington, get out of here! Lay your filthy paws on my daughter again and...' Young Dick never heard what the bak...

'The Grocery Gatsby' by Allison Renner

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I wasn’t surprised to see Jay Gatsby working at the corner store; it was all anyone was talking about, and we were all struggling to make en...
Monday, 17 June 2024

'Not What We Came Here For' by Julia Ruth Smith

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We lay down to love in a field of fire-red, flutter-flutter flowers without knowing their name in our language. We skim-skimmed perfect ston...

'Fertilizer is $19.97 at Home Depot' by Christina Tudor

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My wife and I decide I have the stronger stomach for pregnancy. She’s always a little bit queasy. It would be like being on a non-stop zero-...

'Night Terrors' by Nick Fogg

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His key fumbles in the lock. I shrink under the covers. Maybe tonight he’ll just fall asleep. The bed sags. His alcohol-foul breathing slows...
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Revenge Spell by Donna M Day

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  Fire The rage you ignited The humiliation you bestowed The betrayal you committed Boiling tears spilling from my scorched eyes Earth The w...

The Biscuit Factory by Lisa Williams

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 He’d wet himself; possibly worse. We were all trying to not notice that. He kept repeating that he was waiting for his Mum. She was meeting...

A Young Man Ignores His Father by Lynda McMahon

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 Icarus took to the air with the confidence and exuberance of youth. He soared above the earth and watched rainbows form among the clouds as...

'In My Element' by Liz Gwinnell

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You never heard of Americium? Well hell it’s about time you did. Let me introduce myself. Element 95. At your service. I was discovered in 1...
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'My Elemental Odyssey' by Sarah Oakes

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Fire In October, I was a raging torrent of fire and flame, because the celestial cryptid of my sight was not seen or heard or understood, an...

Alarming Elements by Jane Claire Jackson

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    Earth Terracotta tiles cover ochre buildings. Earthenware pots adorn fenced terraces. Dusty soil. Parched vegetation. Sunbaked land. ...
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The Scent of Rain by Cath Barton

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‘You know what that smell in the air is, don’t you?’ I said, feeling sure he would lecture me about it in his usual way, but making the effo...

'She Looks So Like Her Mother' by Adele Evershed

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Someone said as I walked past them. It wasn't true; we only shared our slant wrinkles - they rose across our foreheads like angry sergea...

Leave It All Behind by Allison Renner

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  Air In the mountains, far from “home,” you can breathe. The air tastes fresh and moist, allowing hope to fester in your lungs in a way the...
Sunday, 16 June 2024

'Perseverance' by Sravanthi Challapalli

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This was the last time she would look for a mud pot, Maggie told herself as she approached the lady selling her wares by the road. She had b...
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