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Month: April 2015

Story: What Remains

By: Michael C. Keith                                   Reasons are not like garments, the worse for wearing.  –– Robert Devereux Knowing he was not long for this world, Philip Desmond decided to clean out his closet. He had not done so in…

Story: The Boy Who Loved to Dance

By: Adreyo Sen When I was a child, my relationship with my mother was often strained. I was five when she signed me up for lessons at the Maharashtra Lawn Tennis association. But I was scared of my coach, who…

Poem: let me be a king

By: Linda M Crate i want to open the eyes of egypt to kiss a pyramid awake and dance upon her sands, want to know the loneliness of the nile and to sing with canoes of the sky; and i…

Poem: i will never surrender

By: Linda M Crate you always try to silence me to cut off the fires of my stars until nothing remains but a broken shell of what i once was, but my will is stronger than you think i will…

William Shakespeare wrote Double Falsehood play

According to a news, researchers have confirmed that William Shakespeare is the author of the play ‘Double Falsehood’. The study was conducted in collaboration with James Pennebaker, also at UT-Austin which provides a deeper exploration of an author’s psychological profile. ‘Double…

Our Relationship with the Future

By:  Raymond Greiner A few months ago I was researching for an essay on the cycles of the sun learning about the billions of years it has taken to achieve its present size, and its continual expansion, eventually achieving a…

Battery Acid Wine

By: Raymond Greiner In 1961 while hiking along the Miramichi River in New Brunswick, Canada I came upon a trail leading up the riverbank. I decided to explore this trail. As I crested the hill above the flood plain a…

Top Authors Who Love Controversies

A lot of people have preferred to convey their intellect and thoughts through literature. It’s a fact that writers are often carried away by the society as well as the social context. While some of you may love to hate…