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  I Am One

  

  By Serena_the_Squid, Kingston, Australia

  I am a multitude. I have lived a thousand lives vicariously. I am a dash, a dollop, a pint of everything and everybody. Eighteen years ago a spoonful of Me was added to an empty bowl. Alas, that measure was soon mixed, stirred. Folded in, strained out. I am lonely. I am so many, but nobody; a...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  The Underpass

  

  By Serena_the_Squid, Kingston, Australia

  Jethra’s footsteps sounded abnormally loud to her as they rhythmically crunched the gravel. The air was starting to chill the sweat on her arms and legs as the day lost the last of its meagre warmth. Around her the grey of dusk turned the landscape an inky black, looming shadows appearing among th...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  To Breathe

  

  By Serena_the_Squid, Kingston, Australia

  In the heat we twist and twirl and unfurl Our wings We learn to have, to be, to smile, and to keep. In the cold we shrink and fall and sink Down deep We learn to wish, to need, to want, and to plead. In the morn we’re met with the stars of the night Fading, fading Unveiling such life, ...