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Viral Truths
hamed
Jan 23, 2025
Ariana held her phone up to the ring light, her thumb hovering over the record button. Behind her, a towering bookshelf served as the backdrop—perfectly curated with faux-intellectual appeal. A …
Venice in Winter, With a Poet as Our Guide
hamed
Jan 27, 2025
In a land where the sky was blue and the mountains were ice-capped, where nights had no shadows but pure nightness and stillness, I found myself here, a traveler through …
The Line in the Sand
hamed
Jan 17, 2025
The rain soaked Mateo’s jacket as he held his wife Rosa’s hand, their two children huddled close between them. Outside the immigration office, a crowd of protesters shouted into the …
The Last Bloom
eromance
Apr 26, 2025
Before the earth split and Hades claimed her, Persephone had another secret. A lover. One no poet dared to name. He came from the woods beyond Eleusis — a wild …
A Child of Promise
hamed
Jan 15, 2025
The January air in Atlanta was crisp, carrying the faint scent of pine from the hills beyond the city. In a modest two-story house on Auburn Avenue, the cries of …
The Gathering
hamed
Jan 15, 2025
The sun dipped low behind the mountains, casting a golden glow over the valley where the red earth met the tall trees. Mara sat on the edge of the fire …
The Djinn’s Kiss
eromance
Apr 26, 2025
The night air in Shiraz was heavy with jasmine and old poems. Elena, an American tourist with a cracked leather journal tucked under her arm, wandered too far from the …
The Coffee Shop Mystic
hamed
Jan 19, 2025
Samir had lived in Silicon Valley long enough to know the routine. Get up, code, debug, deploy, repeat. His life had become a series of neatly ordered lines of code, …
My First Story
ahmad
May 01, 2024
I didn't expect this feeling to hit me like a dodgeball to the gut during Mr. Johnson's epic history lecture on, like, the bubonic plague or something. Jessica, who usually …
Between Floors
hamed
Jan 18, 2025
The elevator shuddered and groaned to a halt. In the sudden silence, the fluorescent lights flickered and dimmed, leaving only the faint glow of emergency lighting. “Great,” muttered the man …