Caitlin Charlton

Joined August 2024

143 stories

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Noir Writer & Close Reader. Spotting the elements of Eloquence.

Survivor. Reclaiming my own territory.

Let us read each other and leave the page free. 🖋️🔥👠

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To dim a dying sun
The sky turned a brave blue. They were told that those white lines across the sky were jet exhaust. It was nothing but a line drawn by a child’s white crayola, a white lie, mistaken for sprayed particulate dispersion.
By Caitlin Charlton11 months ago in Futurism
11:11 When It Happened . Top Story - March 2025.
He was bald. But only on the top of his head, each straight strand lying below the bald spot— grey and black, pushed up by his hardened hair cells. His headphones were sitting on top, black in sturdy plastic. He moved it every few seconds as if part of a ritual, as if his ears have moved position.
By Caitlin Charltonabout a year ago in Fiction
Printed in INK (Cinquain #2). Top Story - March 2025.
When the year is old and the day Is young, When the wake of spring, brings complacent men, And the stars come out when the darkness swung
By Caitlin Charltonabout a year ago in Poets
Poor In Love
Save me from the truth. - You said you wanted variety, but that’s not what hurt me. - Curb me, you left me looking ugly for the rest.
By Caitlin Charltonabout a year ago in Poets
The Good the Bad and the Absurd
The sun stood over the river —its light, glistening across the ripples. The orb stood away from the buildings, so their shadows crossed over and under, Linda’s feet as she jogged.
By Caitlin Charltonabout a year ago in Humor
Dysfunction - Safer than Freedom . Content Warning.
2 Facade, Pretence, semblance; 4 6 Bluffing, posing, duping. A home that leaks, saves you from rain. Faces. *
By Caitlin Charltonabout a year ago in Poets
Under my umbrella Ella Ella…
I’ve got a story to tell Of the time when I fell In love with the thrill Seeking adventures with a friend Under my umbrella
By Caitlin Charltonabout a year ago in Poets
Coloured Feathers…
If your breath landed In the centre of my hearts Seam, Then mine is wrapped around your very soul. If birds sing to you
By Caitlin Charltonabout a year ago in Poets
Travel in 100 words . Top Story - January 2025.
Birds above like kites, Tethered only by their sight, Freedom, soaring high. 🌊 … Shadows in the light. Sun beaming through, cold smoke,
By Caitlin Charltonabout a year ago in Poets
Love is: Gentler Than a Prune
I conceived thoughts of you under the moon, Even a promise is poison ivy; Settling is gentler than a prune, Your eyes a garden, the thorns are lively.
By Caitlin Charltonabout a year ago in Poets
It All Went WRONG. Content Warning.
This day was not a good day. Introduction Well, it started out being a good one. The sun was fulgent outside, my street was quiet, and I had told my grandmother,
By Caitlin Charltonabout a year ago in Photography
The Cafe . Content Warning.
It was the month before Christmas, 16 November 2024 at 16:04. Where the chill still gave autumn's touch. When the darkness would come at 16:19, and the Christmas music would play in the cafe, bringing with it a convivial atmosphere, it sounded strange and foreign; but whole and familiar.
By Caitlin Charltonabout a year ago in Photography