Literary Yard

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Year: 2025

Ode to dreamful Erlking

By: Paweł Markiewicz You dreamful, dreamy, moony and dreamed King of Elves!You became in the most amazing ways: A dazzling statue of Buddha, as If a ghost created it from the moony dreameries.A parrot on the statue: the paradise-like birdie,…

Trojan Horse

By: Parthosarothy K Mukherji Who was telling the story? And whose story was it anyway? The words fluttered and flew in the wind. Alexa laughed. The sleek, cylindrical body, within which lurked a deep mind unsuspected by even the most percipient…

gray and white satellite

Safe Space

By: Parthosarothy K Mukherji As she floated near the observation window of the International Space Station, staring at the Earth  below, she thought about the Archibald MacLeish quote: “To see the Earth as it truly is—small and blue and beautiful…

shadow of a person standing on stairs

Thou, A Fictional Character

By: Juairia Hossain Thou, a shade that dwells ‘neath moonlit skies,Thy face a mist, lost in the winds of time,Thou comest when silence doth rise,And shadows of night stretch o’er my rhyme. Oft thou appearest in the darkened veil,When solitude…

white framed clear glass window

Brilliant Finality

By: Harrison Abbott Gerry used to have a son called Saul. One day when Saul was cycling in the local street, a Land Rover failed to see him coming the other direction at the junction. The Land Rover hit Saul…