Fictional Prose by Top Critiquers
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Short stories and chapters from books and novels
Poems written by Top Critiquers
moroccanpoet
Poem Published
13th Oct 2022 4:34pm
13th Oct 2022 4:34pm
plumber with needed immediately woman
#sex
#erotic
#passion #seductive
#passion #seductive
100 reads
0 Comments
Adelphina
Poem Published
21st Oct 2021 00:23am
21st Oct 2021 00:23am
The Trick of Pumpkin Manor
Grinning, Mr. Saint James rises from his chair and walks over
to the wooden doors.
Standing in front of them, he opens them both at the same
time with a flourish and stands back.
As the three boys move closer, they see an old piece of paper
filled with printed words, floating inside an infinite looking
space flickering with brilliant orange light.
CAESAR
Wow! How’s it doing that?
DEON
You a magician or something,
mister?
MR. SAINT JAMES
Something. One of you must read it
out loud.
CAESAR ...
to the wooden doors.
Standing in front of them, he opens them both at the same
time with a flourish and stands back.
As the three boys move closer, they see an old piece of paper
filled with printed words, floating inside an infinite looking
space flickering with brilliant orange light.
CAESAR
Wow! How’s it doing that?
DEON
You a magician or something,
mister?
MR. SAINT JAMES
Something. One of you must read it
out loud.
CAESAR ...
#Halloween
242 reads
8 Comments
Styxian
Poem Published
30th Nov 2022 2:07am
30th Nov 2022 2:07am
Sacrificial Lambs
(This is a condensed excerpt from a longer story)
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...When we moved, during my tenth year, to Miami, I was as nervous as I was intrigued. An actual city. No more rural life. No more green mountains in summer, or snow covered ones in winter, that we would slide down on pieces of cardboard that we could hopefully find.
The day that we first drove in to Miami, my parents tried to warn me; Don't talk to any dark skinned people, just stay away. That's all that they would say about it. No reasonings...
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...When we moved, during my tenth year, to Miami, I was as nervous as I was intrigued. An actual city. No more rural life. No more green mountains in summer, or snow covered ones in winter, that we would slide down on pieces of cardboard that we could hopefully find.
The day that we first drove in to Miami, my parents tried to warn me; Don't talk to any dark skinned people, just stay away. That's all that they would say about it. No reasonings...
#childhood
#philosophical
92 reads
17 Comments
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
27th Nov 2022 1:31am
27th Nov 2022 1:31am
Life On The Run
CHANNEL 26 NEWS
NEW ORLEANS. LOUISISANA
“We here at Channel 26 News have never reported anything of this nature. For those of you who are just tuning in.”
The news reporter looked down at a piece of paper in her hand, and then looked up. “
A Miss. Rajeen Nadia Whitlow, arrested for the serial crimes that date back three years in New Orleans, and possible facing more criminal charges in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Mississippi, has escaped.”
The news reporter glanced down at a cue card in her hand.
“This updated news report gets complicated...
NEW ORLEANS. LOUISISANA
“We here at Channel 26 News have never reported anything of this nature. For those of you who are just tuning in.”
The news reporter looked down at a piece of paper in her hand, and then looked up. “
A Miss. Rajeen Nadia Whitlow, arrested for the serial crimes that date back three years in New Orleans, and possible facing more criminal charges in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Mississippi, has escaped.”
The news reporter glanced down at a cue card in her hand.
“This updated news report gets complicated...
#secrets
#lies
#betrayal #deception
#betrayal #deception
170 reads
10 Comments
Em-ily
Poem Published
5th Mar 2022 10:10pm
5th Mar 2022 10:10pm
John Dee, Non-Biographical Sketch
As an old man, it is not known whether he studied the eternal graves of motor vehicles. John Dee. At Chelmsford studied chemistry, theology and hermetic philosophy. Knowing her abilities, she may well have worshiped in yellow.
She traveled and learned from the mathematicians Mary and Princess Elizabeth from other continents. Stories related to Euclid in Paris. He studied literature, founded the National Library, and studied mathematics at Oxford University, focusing on Cardano's scientific lectures (critical quadrivers, the designer of Gerardus Mercator, universities of...
She traveled and learned from the mathematicians Mary and Princess Elizabeth from other continents. Stories related to Euclid in Paris. He studied literature, founded the National Library, and studied mathematics at Oxford University, focusing on Cardano's scientific lectures (critical quadrivers, the designer of Gerardus Mercator, universities of...
#historical
90 reads
0 Comments
Cipher_O
Poem Published
15th May 2021 7:26am
15th May 2021 7:26am
Aphrodite Rising (III of III)
Divinity in Darkness
Times of High Strangeness call into question the nature of the reality in which we exist, a world of phenomenon and perception. When our notions of consensus reality are bent and even broken, we are set adrift in the neo-gravity of the unknown, a spaceman out of the capsule and into space, approaching the end of the tether, like an amphibious creature roaming the land, meeting the end of it’s terrestrial capacity with no water in sight, synonymous with the dreamer or the thinker in the realms of thoughts and dreams.
My normal respiratory functions...
Times of High Strangeness call into question the nature of the reality in which we exist, a world of phenomenon and perception. When our notions of consensus reality are bent and even broken, we are set adrift in the neo-gravity of the unknown, a spaceman out of the capsule and into space, approaching the end of the tether, like an amphibious creature roaming the land, meeting the end of it’s terrestrial capacity with no water in sight, synonymous with the dreamer or the thinker in the realms of thoughts and dreams.
My normal respiratory functions...
#angels
#aliens
300 reads
4 Comments
nutbuster
D C
D C
Poem Published
30th Aug 2021 11:10pm
30th Aug 2021 11:10pm
5 myths about sex for over 60
#science
#fiction
326 reads
9 Comments
robert43041
Viking
Viking
Poem Published
3rd Nov 2022 5:01pm
3rd Nov 2022 5:01pm
The weird convolutions of the brain
Grace was a successful young woman. She was at ease in the world of high-tech, had an excellent income and, as well, came from a fllthy rich family. In need of help? One call to dad and the cash came pouring in.
She was lucky in the world of cash, not so much in the field of love where thing did not always go her way. Which was unacceptable. Her first Big Love was a failure. She made sure that the fellow ended up bankrupt. Poor him, he met many bottles of booze, then more and added a severe depression to the alcool.
Grace let bygone be bygone and met a charming fellow at a...
She was lucky in the world of cash, not so much in the field of love where thing did not always go her way. Which was unacceptable. Her first Big Love was a failure. She made sure that the fellow ended up bankrupt. Poor him, he met many bottles of booze, then more and added a severe depression to the alcool.
Grace let bygone be bygone and met a charming fellow at a...
#greed
#apathy
44 reads
0 Comments
REMARKABLE_8
RichyRich
RichyRich
Poem Published
30th Aug 2022 00:49am
30th Aug 2022 00:49am
The art of the craft
In the quest to unraveling, an revealing the understanding of the unknown, venturing into the realms of the forgotten knowledge and ancient wisdom of old, heading down paths so cold in different directions, with no warmth or any heat to help comfort the soul, yet we persevere forward in pursuit of power and control, some sort of reassurance or even a strong hold, over the art of the craft, performances, pictures, artwork, books, films, even stories have been told, yet even within science and math all done seeking to acquire to master the art of the craft.
...
...
#fall
#spring
#morning
#night
#dawn
135 reads
4 Comments
Pinkdreams
Poem Published
19th Oct 2022 7:29am
19th Oct 2022 7:29am
Happy Girls in Paradise
In the middle of sixth grade I became best friends with Marcie. The Marcie she was back then had frizzy hair and cumbersome black glasses. She was the new girl at school, lost, with no road map to the land of cool. I didn’t have one either, so I guided her into my world.
Soon we spent countless hours at each other’s homes. We made up silly songs and skits. We rode our bikes in Miami’s humidity to the Parrot Jungle, sipping Cokes as crayon-hued Macaws squawked overhead. We had slumber parties with our friends, did cheers on our front lawns, and flew in her father’s corporate jet to...
Soon we spent countless hours at each other’s homes. We made up silly songs and skits. We rode our bikes in Miami’s humidity to the Parrot Jungle, sipping Cokes as crayon-hued Macaws squawked overhead. We had slumber parties with our friends, did cheers on our front lawns, and flew in her father’s corporate jet to...
#teens
#BestFriend
#childhood #MovingOn
#childhood #MovingOn
111 reads
6 Comments
Strangeways_Rob
Poem Published
22nd Apr 2021 7:53pm
22nd Apr 2021 7:53pm
Shooting Fish in a Barrel
BANG! His drunken form swallowed the bedroom. She slunk deep into nest of pillows and duvet. Nightly ritual began. She recoiled at each approaching footstep. He stealthily reached for the gun. He enjoyed her screams and pleas as he pulled trigger. Volley of blanks broke the silence.
BANG! Nerves frayed, she ate another Valium breakfast. In a cloudy haze she decided. She would swap the blanks for real bullets.
BANG! Sat at the bar, complaining vehemently that the beer was too warm, his mind cranked through devious levers. ‘Oh yes,’ he roared deep inside. ‘Tonight I will...
BANG! Nerves frayed, she ate another Valium breakfast. In a cloudy haze she decided. She would swap the blanks for real bullets.
BANG! Sat at the bar, complaining vehemently that the beer was too warm, his mind cranked through devious levers. ‘Oh yes,’ he roared deep inside. ‘Tonight I will...
#dark
#fiction
332 reads
7 Comments
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