Freelit Stories

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the gimlet by SpragueThomson
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the gimletby SpragueThomson
Where once was a wall, there's now a void bored.
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Bronx cheer by SpragueThomson
#2
Bronx cheerby SpragueThomson
Does a Bronx cheer really need an introduction?
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a train lit  by SpragueThomson
#3
a train lit by SpragueThomson
When all is dark, the light isn't only outside the tunnel, inside the tunnel burns a light too.
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The new name for his virus, the Trump flu. by SpragueThomson
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The new name for his virus, the Tr...by SpragueThomson
It isn't just the president of the land of the free, who now finally has got his own bone spur war. All over the World our so-called leaders miss the boat to prepare, to...
detergent by SpragueThomson
#5
detergentby SpragueThomson
The how to is a phenomenon connected to this day and age. We all see the clickbait, the invitational banners, the lure with photos and videos. After the click this world...
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shot spent by SpragueThomson
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shot spentby SpragueThomson
As a kid, this is how I looked when I was sick but didn't wanna be ill. My body remembers, so here I am having fought pain and discomfort, setback and mourning of an old...
Crown Cache by SpragueThomson
#7
Crown Cacheby SpragueThomson
The inexcusable way people who aren't tested and die from CoViD-19 and therefore aren't accounted for in the statistics, is heart wrenching, cold, calculating. Meanwhile...
Anthropologie  by SpragueThomson
#8
Anthropologie by SpragueThomson
The store chain with its auspicious brand name is again in the news, now for applying a policy which brands fellow human beings of dark skin complexion as Nicks and Nick...
the trial by SpragueThomson
#9
the trialby SpragueThomson
Finally there's someone who stands up against the filth and disgust that fills the front pages and back alleys of platforms like twitter and facebook. I wonder what thes...
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tintinnabulary  by SpragueThomson
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tintinnabulary by SpragueThomson
A short fable poem about a cat who stands through a number of storms.
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gureugenics by SpragueThomson
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gureugenicsby SpragueThomson
The arrogance laid bare where compassion and empathy are traded in for select superiority. All in search for the new prophet. It's an old message seen before. There's no...
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a cue for the phi by SpragueThomson
#12
a cue for the phiby SpragueThomson
Is the golden ratio truly golden? Has this number truly been incorporated by painters and sculptors? Or is it just the rule of nature into what we perceive as more beaut...
sorry game by SpragueThomson
#13
sorry gameby SpragueThomson
Haiku, for a sorry soccer game. Gone forever. No more playing on this board. Close the game by folding it up and put it back in its box.
how do you to do  by SpragueThomson
#14
how do you to do by SpragueThomson
Now that the covid peak is assumed to be reached quarantines are loosened, lines are lost. This pandemic will stay with us for a long time, a time in which we all have t...
pill by SpragueThomson
#15
pillby SpragueThomson
On the coffee grounds grows a mold. Mold can kill us and cure.
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aux bois des Buttes by SpragueThomson
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aux bois des Buttesby SpragueThomson
More than a hundred years ago now, Guillaume Apollinaire died from the Spanish flu. He never fully recovered an injury to the temple as a result from a French assault at...
morning melody by SpragueThomson
#17
morning melodyby SpragueThomson
The singing and dancing magpies out here wake us up every single morning with their funny routine.
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syntax anarchy by SpragueThomson
#18
syntax anarchyby SpragueThomson
Rules have a function, rules also exist to be tested. Especially in writing poetry, grammar needs to sing a lower tone next to rhythm or rhyme, but even without rhyme in...
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gathering  by SpragueThomson
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gathering by SpragueThomson
In a new World our species once more become hunter gatherers in our backyards and cities..
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ignis fatuus  by SpragueThomson
#20
ignis fatuus by SpragueThomson
Illusion cheats on our eyes, as it does with the virtual perception. An illusion isn't virtual, although the virtual can be an illusion. It's not the threshold between u...