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The Year 1965 in Review: Fun Facts, Trivia, and Historic Highlights
This quick read is a collection of fun facts, trivia, and historical events from the year 1965. Discover the year’s top news stories, most influential people, sports facts, historic firsts, entertainment trivia, and much more.
By Gregory DeVictor23 days ago in History
I Went Wassailing in the Orchard Wood
In the bitter cold, we gather. Collective, strong. Huzzah to the rain.
By Ophelia Keane Braeden23 days ago in Poets
when running, I run
when running, I run exploiting sagas come true a red winged black bird
By Gerry Thibeault23 days ago in Poets
Ghost Pepper
A bowling alley neon lights beaming down pins string of fluorescent all the way to the WOOP you impatiently topple D o w n
By Michele Nampalli23 days ago in Poets
Never Trust People Who Protect a Pedophile . Content Warning.
Here is the church, Here is the steeple, Here is the pastor And his new vehicle. Don't you worry, He didn't use the tithes...
By CT Idlehouse23 days ago in Poets
The Year 1981 in Review: Fun Facts, Trivia, and Historic Highlights
This quick read is a collection of fun facts, trivia, and historical events from the year 1981. Discover the year’s top news stories, most influential people, sports facts, computer trivia, entertainment trivia, and much more.
By Gregory DeVictor23 days ago in History
This is my Therapy
Warm chick on my palm Dog nose fogs the incubator Peck, my finger again
By Teena Quinn 23 days ago in Poets
Janis Joplin: The Woman Inside the Wail
A powerful reflective essay exploring the inner life, emotional intensity, contradiction, loneliness, and raw brilliance of Janis Joplin beyond the myth.
By Flower InBloom23 days ago in Humans
New Normalcy
I and my team of five were at least convinced that the HEIST was not the result of greed; rather, it was due to the banking system's stupidly overinclined and ever-increasing reliance on biometric identity verification. We thought it would work in our favor, but in a hyper-digital world, the tragedy isn't just that the body fails but that the body's degradation outpaces the rigidity of the encryption.
By Viral Rana23 days ago in Fiction
A Fallen World
All creation groans Because of a fallen world Of unfulfilled peace
By Margaret Minnicks23 days ago in Poets
How Challenged Are You?
I have just started getting myself back into a routine of writing, after a difficult few years that cut down my time. Many people will have noticed that my writing patterns have been sporadic and irregular.
By Carol Ann Townend23 days ago in Writers
The Door That Was Always Open
When a wave returns to its vast source, one might mourn it, or marvel that something so brief could carry so much of forever on its back.
By Tim Carmichael23 days ago in Poets