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• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Ladder of Power

  

  By AlexanderQ, Oak Creek, CO

  There will be days When people bring you down so low You can't get up They bring you down To pull themselves up But you can't give up You simply smile And wave to them above And know that they will Simply Be brought down by another...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Daffodil

  

  By AlexanderQ, Oak Creek, CO

  A yellow petal Waxy green leaves on the stem Simple daffodil...
• Fiction > Romance
  Winter

  

  By AlexanderQ, Oak Creek, CO

  Winter sat alone on a narrow bench by the river. The cool, fall breeze tossed his snow white hair into his face. His cloudy eyes gazed down the path as a small figure emerges from around the corner. The hairs on his pale arm prickle as her face comes into the moonlight,. Long, red hair framed her sm...
• Fiction > Historical Fiction
  Chains

  

  By AlexanderQ, Oak Creek, CO

  He woke in chains. His naked body huddled on the cold, damp stone. His feet were bleeding and numb: his hands shaking and useless. His frame was short and scrawny. Prominent ribs threatened to split the skin. His head was bald, spattered with patches of long, filthy hair. His face was sunken, bruise...
• Fiction > Action-Adventure
  The Officer

  

  By AlexanderQ, Oak Creek, CO

  The officer spent a lot of time waiting for something to happen. Anything. On the front lines of battle, he waited. Waited for the enemy that never showed. He had assumed that by this time in the war, he would have been dead or at home, the war safely behind him. Waiting wasn’t part of his plan. ...
• Fiction > Romance
  Coffee Shop

  

  By AlexanderQ, Oak Creek, CO

  I inhaled the beautiful scent of roasted coffee beans and whipped cream and chocolate and spices. A gust of frigid air rushed in after me, uninvited. I glided effortlessly across the tile floor and sank into a cushy velvet armchair. Pure bliss enveloped me. I had a whole two hours to spend here in h...
• Fiction > Action-Adventure
  The Escape Tree

  

  By AlexanderQ, Oak Creek, CO

  Crouching in the bushes, I spot the twenty four hour guard patrol circle the Prison like a pack of hungry wolves closing in for a kill. Somehow I’ve escaped the Prison That Is Inescapable. So much planning, so much time wasted, sitting, waiting, eternity. But then, I figured it out. And now I’m ...
• Poetry > Haiku
  The Pursuit of Happiness

  

  By AlexanderQ, Oak Creek, CO

  Why must we have things If they are not sufficient To give happiness?...