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Missing Pipes, Nuts and Screws by Adaora Ogunniyi

Missing Pipes, Nuts and Screws by Adaora Ogunniyi

Posted on May 17, 2024May 18, 2024 by Every Writer

‘My toast is too dry; it’s scratching my lips, Daddy!’ 

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The Soldier Who Loved Dogs

Posted on March 8, 2023December 9, 2023 by Every Writer

“I am not a warring man.” Igor watched the old man lead a German Shepherd through the rubble which Berlin had become.

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BLACK HOLE by Alex Khansa  

Posted on May 23, 2019May 6, 2024 by Every Writer

I pick up today’s paper. There’s a ring of light—bright and blurry—against a black backdrop. Headlines call it the first ever photo of a black hole.

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The Rusted Swing Set by Sheila Good

The Rusted Swing Set by Sheila Good

Posted on April 15, 2019December 9, 2023 by Every Writer

The Rusted Swing Set by Sheila Good She folded the morning newspaper. Her old bones creaked as she stood leaning on the table for balance. Shuffling to the sink, she washed out her coffee cup placing it in the drainer. The sun was bright as she pulled the curtain aside checking out the backyard. The…

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Delivery by Denis Bell

Posted on March 1, 2019May 6, 2024 by Every Writer

“It came out positive.”

“You’re kidding!”

It would seem so. The news was surprising to Ruth because Sandra was old. Not Betty White old, but easily old enough to be Ruth’s mom.

“What did Jim say?”

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Hanging by Beaton Galafa

Posted on June 25, 2018June 25, 2018 by Every Writer

It came one evening when everyone else was sleeping. It crawled in the dark outside, hissing along the night winds that were shaking leaves and branches of the big mango tree standing tall a few footsteps from our house.

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 Helping Me Up by Bruce Ransom

 Helping Me Up by Bruce Ransom

Posted on November 13, 2017May 6, 2024 by Every Writer

“Are you going to be my new daddy?” she asked directly.

“I don’t know,” he said, looking down at the flowery dress squirming beside him on the edge of the living room couch.  “I like your mom, but to get married you have to really, really like each other.”

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Escape by Murdock O’Mooney

Posted on July 17, 2017May 6, 2024 by Every Writer

Escape by Murdock O’Mooney “We got to get out of here,” I tell her. She tells me she knows and that she’s waiting for the right time. “You saw what he did to Johnny- he’s got a black eye and fat lip… he’s all beat up.” She says that it’s none of our business. I…

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Daddy Dearest by Sue Buckwell

Posted on February 27, 2012October 28, 2017 by Every Writer

Daddy Dearest by Sue Buckwell My father was a psychoanalyst and instilled in me a fear of almost everything. Being a learned man, he also taught me the scientific names for each and every phobia I have amassed over the years. That one, for instance, is called polyphobia. My first memories are of the peculiar…

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A Friend Indeed by Sue Buckwell

Posted on September 15, 2011October 28, 2017 by Every Writer

A Friend Indeed by Sue Buckwell As brand new elementary school teachers, Faith and I bonded when we discovered, in mid-September, that we hated children and agreed that if we ever again encountered our respective high school guidance counselors, we would do them serious bodily injury for suggesting that we might be well suited to…

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ABOUT A LITTLE BOY AND A LITTLE GIRL by Hans Anderson

Posted on June 10, 2010August 9, 2017 by Every Writer

In a big town crowded with houses and people, where there is no room for gardens, people have to be content with flowers in pots instead. In one of these towns lived two children who managed to have something bigger than a flower pot for a garden. They were not brother and sister, but they…

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Brothers By SHERWOOD ANDERSON

Posted on April 27, 2010August 9, 2017 by Every Writer

I am sitting in my house in the country and it rains. Before my eyes the hills fall suddenly away and there are the flat plains and beyond the plains the city. An hour ago the old man of the house in the forest went past my door and the little dog was not with him.

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