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✦ New this week: "Poets From Tomorrow" by Nzan Kikon✦ Five stories and counting✦ Flash fiction to novellas✦ Written by storytellers, for readers✦ Settle in for a page, a chapter, or an entire evening✦ New this week: "Poets From Tomorrow" by Nzan Kikon✦ Five stories and counting✦ Flash fiction to novellas✦ Written by storytellers, for readers✦ Settle in for a page, a chapter, or an entire evening

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Featured Stories

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Flash FictionBy Nzan Kikon

Poets From Tomorrow

“ The piazza in Florence is far larger and more beautiful than Verona’s ,” Dante muttered to himself. He stood in one of the entrances of the piazza, ...

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Featured Poetry

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PoetryBy Nzan Kikon

Corrupted unbreakable soul

“I do understand and it is terrible” Franz Kafka. Corrupted unbreakable soul : I have participated in depravity And I wonder if I am corrupted I have ...

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PoetryBy Nzan Kikon

Strange People

“I feel so lost among these entirely strange people” Franz Kafka. Strange People : I am a stranger in a strange land with strangers I see strange face...

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PoetryBy Nzan Kikon

KNOWN UNKNOWN

“I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparen...

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PoetryBy Nzan Kikon

Listen to the song of my soul

“Now I’ll open my whole soul to you: I’ll pour out everything” Fyodor Dostoevsky. Listen to the song of my soul : Now I am defeated I have embraced my...


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