by kingdompen | Apr 10, 2023 | Poetry
By Daisy TorresI watched you go ice skating, but my mind found something grating. You stood on the ice with afriend, took a quick picture, and that was the end.I saw you scrolling yesterday, looking at a post. It seemed like you thought reality was a ghost.You...by kingdompen | Apr 3, 2023 | Short Stories
The Doctor's Daughter By Caitlyn Koser The aroma of freshly baked biscuits filled the house, fragrancing the front porch where I sat with its lofty odors. The trellis on the side of the porch was blossoming, its full, scarlet flowers...by kingdompen | Mar 31, 2023 | Poetry
By Molly McTernan Have you loosened your hold? Did you begin to stray? Like a lost lamb Who wandered away. Does it all feel so hard? How can you go on? When the light is snuffed out, The curtain drawn. Are you walking in a tunnel? No end in sight? When all has left...by kingdompen | Mar 27, 2023 | Poetry
By Caitlyn Koser Fireflies blink in the hastening dusk Dashing across the meadows Brightening the country’s sweet-smelling musk Wandering through the corn’s neat straight ‘rows. Over the brook, past the wood Through the cemetery near the church As if even they should...by kingdompen | Mar 17, 2023 | Short Stories
By Linyang Zhang His hair was raven black, a little long, and a pair of rimless glasses perched upon his pale cheekbones. When he took off his black coat he was dressed neatly in a plain suit, as expected of a college professor....