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• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Aces and Sixes

  

  By BilbroSwaggins, Blountstown, FL

  The cards felt good in my hand, like these five cards just belonged to me. Everything at that moment felt as right as could be. Of course the fact that I held aces over sixes helped the happiness just a bit as I sat at the round poker table. Across from the plastic table with a sheet of green fel...
• Fiction > Scripts & Plays
  Complex Simplicity

  

  By BilbroSwaggins, Blountstown, FL

  Lifelong friends Bill and Harvard are pulled up beside each other in their pickup trucks, looking at the field of cotton that Bill owns. The two are about fifty and their simplicity is almost complex. Harvard: Good lookin’ crop this year. Bill: Yep, I figure it’s the best I’ve made in...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  To Be Poetic

  

  By BilbroSwaggins, Blountstown, FL

  To be poetic, Must one use the word “one”? To be poetic, Must I write a cheesy metaphor for life? To be poetic, Must I write with the skill of Shakespeare? To be poetic Is merely natural. To be poetic, I put my thoughts into words. To be poetic, I write with a smile...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Time Flies

  

  By BilbroSwaggins, Blountstown, FL

  They say time flies, But I’m only sixteen. Time just seems to be an intimidating figure, Because we have so little of it. We are told to make the most of it, Told to use it wisely. To a young person time seems unlimited, But everything in this life has a limit. Nobody can purchase more...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Creating

  

  By BilbroSwaggins, Blountstown, FL

  To have the ability to wield a pen, Is the ability to create a world. Paper is merely a blank dimension, You decide how to mold it. Indefinite boundaries await my pen, For absolutely anything is possible. To think my hand can create a story, or character, Shocks me, and pushes me to create...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Won By Me

  

  By BilbroSwaggins, Blountstown, FL

  Not handed to me, Earned by me. It’s easy to say how easy I had it, When you do not know how hard it was. Not given to me, Won by me. My work, my time, and my sweat, That’s how I came out on top....
• Reviews > Movie Reviews
  The Magnificent Seven

  

  By BilbroSwaggins, Blountstown, FL

  The title “The Magnificent Seven” is spot on, for this film is truly, magnificent! An all-star cast comes together to make one of the marvels of the western genre. Intriguing characters, intense action, and compelling score by Elmer Bernstein combine in this unforgettable classic. A small M...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Wake-Up Call

  

  By BilbroSwaggins, Blountstown, FL

  A personal war raged between me and the monstrous beast of nature called a mockingbird for several weeks. Outside my bedroom window is a towering Bradford Pear tree which doubles as a thing of aesthetic beauty and the residence of my former arch rival. My alarm clock is perpetually set to awaken ...
• Opinion > Current Events / Politics
  Right To Bear Arms

  

  By BilbroSwaggins, Blountstown, FL

  Owning firearms is a constitutional right that I have, and so I currently and will always own a gun. “Gun” has such a negative connotation in today’s society; however the fact that that gun gives me the power to protect myself and my family overwhelms me with a positive feeling. Many politic...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Bad Luck

  

  By BilbroSwaggins, Blountstown, FL

  If I pointed to a spot on the globe, And said, “There, I’ll travel there.” It would probably be a warzone. That kind of day, I would say today was just spilt milk, But I spilt milk all over myself. I reached down for the penny, It was on heads, I grabbed it The previous owner had t...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Streets of Gold

  

  By BilbroSwaggins, Blountstown, FL

  Cities of gold, Tales that are told, Promises of the most wonderful things! Go there we must, For riches I lust, Oh don’t you want to live like a king! This dream won’t rid, The riches are hid, I've searched almost all of my life. Nowhere is the city, Oh what a pity, Lust for ...
• Fiction > Historical Fiction
  Lee's Words

  

  By BilbroSwaggins, Blountstown, FL

  Hope had faded that day. I had seen rifle balls tear through my fellow soldiers, leaving them lifeless upon the ground. We had failed to take Little Round Top and most of the Alabama 15th were taken prisoner. I counted myself lucky to have made it back to our confederate lines, but inside me was ...