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Inquiry - a poem for the Writing Impact Challenge

This poem is my entry in @rensoul17's Writing Impact Challenge (https://steemit.com/writingimpact/@rensoul17/the-writing-impact-challenge). This is such a cool ...

WIN! $175 SBD! UPick the Story I Write it! CONTEST # 10 and Winner for #9! ENTER HERE!!

So, today's winner is @simms50 So, let's support our winners, go visit @simms50 and leave a comment or two, find something to upvote if you can! Let's build com...

Anthology Publication Update!

Message in a Bottle 25 Origin: Isle of Write Sender: @jrhughes Recipients: Steemit Creatives Anthology Updates It’s been four weeks since we first announced tha...

Dragonflies and Other Magical Creatures - my entry in the Supernatural Writing Contest - by @bennettitalia

https://steemitimages.com/0x0/https://i.imgur.com/4hEbGBP.jpg (image source: https://pixabay.com/en/japan-natural-insect-dragonfly-3029432/) I don't think I can...

The Writing Impact Challenge

Welcome To The Writing Impact Challenge The purpose of this challenge is two-fold (1) To create a literary piece of beautiful art (2) to write something that ev...

A Swansong - The Impact Challenge Contest

They say real girls wear pearls and polka dot skirts. They speak in whispers and seldom make noise. They walk softly, on tippy toes Softly, too, in just the rig...

The Custodian, Chapter 5

I know it's been a few months since I posted the last of these, but such is the life of a writer, one as disorganized and at times, lazy as this one. But be tha...

Isle of Write Islander Highlights! Week 4

Message in a Bottle 24 Origin: Isle of Write Sender: @jrhughes Recipients: Steemit Creatives Islander Highlights - Week Four! Each week we aim to give back to o...

Curation to Publication Fiction Update!

Message in a Bottle 21 Origin: The Isle of Write Sender: @jrhughes Recipients: Steemit Creatives Fiction Anthologies Curation Update! It’s well past time for us...

"What Do Animals Dream?" A Reading on DSound

My poem was inspired by watching a dog sleeping, with their eyelids twitching. What began as a curiosity about animals and dreaming soon gave way to a meditatio...

The Masters Plan - A Steemit Exclusive Novel - Action Noir - Part 1

Welcome to the first part of The Masters Plan, an action noir novel exclusive to Steemit. I am going to try to post a new section each Sunday until the story is...

Isle of Write Poetry Curation Week 4 Roundup

Message in a bottle 20 Origin: Isle of Write Sender: @authorofthings Recipients: Steemit Creatives Apologies for this post being a day late. We might have imbib...

Curie Author Showcase (February 16th, 2018)

- In spirit of Curie's mission to promote undiscovered but exceptional content, we wish to use this weekly section to provide an author showcase for some of the...

Islander Highlights - Valentine Edition!

Message in a Bottle 19 Origin: Isle of Write Sender: @authorofthings Recipients: Steemit Creatives Islander Highlights - Valentine Edition! It’s Valentine’s Day...

Unafraid - a Love Poem

Unafraid It is only melting away And into Deep, deep, deep Your wings Folded into mine, A perfect fit We will fly High but slow As if in deep sleep We will drip...

Unraveling - a weird journey I’m on…

(me skiing in the tundra at about 40 below) Unraveling My grandmother died of a broken arm. Not technically, but that’s how I remember it. She’d been in a bad m...

The Making of a Reb, Part 3

The Making of a Reb, Part 3 “When was your last test, Carter?” He stills, stares at me, uncomprehending. “Your balance test, Carter, the last one, when?” My voi...

How to Make a Kickass Borscht

First - a caveat. While I use ‘Borsht’ in the title, no self-respecting Russian would either spell or pronounce it this way. It really should be “Borsh” and so ...

A Gift - Original Horror Story

image credit Pixabay A Gift “I have a gift for you.” She turns, looks at him, the face she knows so well. He’s smiling at her one of his secret, soft smiles, no...

Rosewater - (150-word Flash Fiction; Entry for DHS 5SBD Contest)

The ancient sage was wrong. Hell is not other people. It’s the absence of the right ones. Or the one. She sat on the edge of a colossal tortoise-shaped rock, st...