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For once dead you never shall return
khayam
Jan 25, 2024
لب بر لب کوزه بردم از غایت آز تا زو پرسم واسطه عمر دراز لب بر لب من نهاد و می گفت این راز می خور که بدین جهان نمی …
The Long Road Out
hamed
Jan 12, 2025
The roar of the flames echoed in Mia’s ears long before she saw them. The sky, once a clear blue, was now a thick, oppressive orange, choked by smoke. She …
The Last Breath of the City
hamed
Jan 12, 2025
The fire had come like a beast, a consuming thing with no remorse. What had once been a city of neatly arranged homes, fragrant gardens, and streets lined with towering …
Two Tables
hamed
Jan 14, 2025
Sarah gripped her coffee mug, its warmth failing to steady her trembling hands. Across the chrome-and-glass conference table, three executives in tailored suits studied her resume with practiced indifference. "Your …
Lila
khayam
Dec 29, 2023
The moving finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all thy tears wash out …
The Summer Fence
eromance
Apr 22, 2025
In the swelter of a Georgia summer, 1862, Caleb, a lanky college boy of nineteen, home from Athens, found his gaze tethered to Mrs. Lottie Harper, his neighbor’s wife. At …
Ashes and Embers
hamed
Jan 12, 2025
The house was gone. Emma stood at the edge of the blackened lot, her boots sinking into the scorched earth. The air still carried the acrid scent of smoke, mingling …
The Last Delivery
hamed
Jan 20, 2025
The warehouse hummed with the sound of drones, their metallic wings buzzing as they zipped off into the sky. Nathan sat at his console, staring at the blinking prompt on …
The Manuscript's Echo
hamed
Jan 18, 2025
Eliot sat cross-legged in the dimly lit restoration lab, the smell of old paper and ink filling the air. The manuscript before him, a delicate, centuries-old text, had become his …
The Minister’s Mistake (Profumo Affair, UK, 1963)
eromance
Apr 22, 2025
Christine, a showgirl with legs like a Cold War ceasefire, had John Profumo, War Secretary, in a spin. Their poolside meeting at Cliveden—her nude swim a diplomatic incident—left him dizzy. …