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Tag: people watching

Morning by Anthony ILacqua
Fiction / Micro

Morning by Anthony ILacqua

April 18, 2025April 12, 20250

microfiction by by Anthony ILacqua #TheMetaworker #ForgeFriday

Motel Soap by Bonnie Brewer-Kraus
Fiction / Micro

Motel Soap by Bonnie Brewer-Kraus

August 9, 2024August 9, 20240

“I love the little pink soap in its shiny white wrapper that I place on the gleaming porcelain sink of Room 118.” – excerpt from Motel Soap by Bonnie Brewer-Kraus #TheMetaworker #ForgeFriday

“As We Know It” by Marco Etheridge
Fiction

“As We Know It” by Marco Etheridge

July 31, 2020August 29, 20201

You pause in the center of the footbridge, a silver-bright ribbon running beneath you, gravel paths serpentine under the locust trees that define the banks …

“Coffee Cup, Empty” by DAH
Poetry

“Coffee Cup, Empty” by DAH

June 22, 2020August 19, 20202

This dimly-lit café, there’s a voice then two, then three speaking like a detuned triangle  with so much impatience. Winter, dense and black,  crams itself …

“Red Wine for Winter” by DS Maolalai
Poetry

“Red Wine for Winter” by DS Maolalai

July 16, 2018September 3, 20200

the snow melts grey into late december and mean music is making a sudden comeback in the bars saxophones and tatters of rattled live drumming …

“Hatching” by Lena Silver
Non-Fiction

“Hatching” by Lena Silver

January 8, 2018September 23, 20200

I was born an old soul they say, a quiet spectator mulling over muddled thoughts, about what I don’t know, perhaps a previous lifetime. I …

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