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April 25, 2024
General Stories Michael Barlett

Dubious Provence

CHAPTER ONE The grizzly old man watched through the window as a Jeep Cherokee approached along the pathway leading to his cabin. He had no clue as to who the visitor might be, although the person had been there many times before. Sadly, the old man was…
April 25, 2024
General Stories Robert Pook

Debut

Glossed red leather clatters into a hallowed wicket of willow, cracking the silence within storied stands of the ‘Home of cricket.’ M.C.C., Lord’s cricket ground, two hundred years of history. Centuries old celebration of appeal, and congratulation, echo…
April 25, 2024
Mystery Stories Kownain Sid

Don't Feel Bad When I Die

(Inspired by true events) Part one: The descent into darkness "Come on, sweetie, now is the time for a bedtime story," a man tells his daughter as he begins reading from a few papers he was carrying. "Today, David is meeting his former teacher, Pinky, after…
April 20, 2024
Poetry Paweł Markiewicz

The Quire Of The Sheep

We are calling for your soul for a benevolent autumnal source May the hoary times arrive full of sunny gloom endlessly dream! with a fancy coming from tender sea we are conjuring you dreamer your mythical pearls Come propitious birdies from Olympus-mountling!…
April 20, 2024
Crime Stories Jason Smith

Peter's Peril

It was finally happening. After years of struggling, Peter had landed his dream job. A producer in Hollywood had read his self published book and wanted to create a television show based on it. He’d personally asked Peter to join his writing team. This was…
April 20, 2024
Fantasy Stories Nelly Shulman

The White Dove

The dusty glass of an ancient lamp sparkled, and Bronwen jumped back. Nikola rolled his eyes. “The electricity is quite safe,” he said. “Sooner or later, you’ll use it.” Sitting down in a worn velvet chair, Bronwen snorted. “What for, Nikola? I have my magic…
April 13, 2024
Flash Fiction Benoit

The March

By just one seat, the Coalition of Hard Fighting Women, More Justice for Women and Green Now had won the election. At 12 noon on Giri (Wednesday), triumphant feminists would march from each end of Sydney Harbour Bridge to celebrate. Led by Prime Minister…
April 13, 2024
Flash Fiction Dominik Slusarczyk

The Exam

I I catch the ball, spin, and throw it back to my friend. I throw it way too hard. It goes sailing over my friend’s head, bounces, then goes into the back of a girl sat in a little circle with her friends. One of her friends tuts at us and tells us to be more…
April 13, 2024
Mystery Stories MegaParsec

Mrs Briton's Secret

Everyday Mrs. Briton would quietly leave the house in the dark. She would tiptoe so that no one would ever come to know that…..(beginning given) She was dying. The only pillar of the family’s well-being depending on a tiny vial and a hypodermic needle. Every…
April 11, 2024
Horror Stories Luna Woods

Cornswell The Witch

The year is 1692. A young fellow named David was on his way into town when he saw a weird-looking house in the distance. The house was old and run-down, but there was still light burning through the windows. "DAVID. DAAAAAAVIIIID." David turned around to see…
April 11, 2024
Science Fiction Stories David Blitch

Do You Remember When?

Do you remember when? Before the Alien Bastards came? Well, I sure do! I sit here in my farm house on the lake, at the foothills of the White Mountains, getting wasted on cheap beer even before the lunch bell has rung. It is a place so secluded, among the…
April 11, 2024
Romance Stories A.Coster

A Night In The Black Forest

My homebound journey following my tour of Europe was interrupted when my plane halted in Paris for a couple hours, leaving me with just one hour in Frankfurt to make my connecting flight. As I had feared, I would not make it. If you’ve traveled through…

I have dreamed during the whole night. A dreamy Erlking has come to me with his wizardry of muses. I opened my dear soul for his fulfillment as well as for the dreamery full of moonlit night. A shooting star became my best dearest friend, such a weird of some druids... In this starlit night I feel a paradise in me. The Erlking, a ruler of a thousand elves from a holt, told me the most marvelous story about magic not of this time. Listen to me! Do not forget it, never, but you are not a forget-me-not!

The meekest story

A wise man in former times told the king that there is the marvelous world behind a primeval Birch Grove, the so-called woodland of Zeus, at each midnight. The gorgeous magical world wakes and dies after seven hours of fulfillment of fire and warmth. There the magic is released, with that it pushes in the beautiful world with magic power. There is a silver queen of fire and volcanoes called the Loving of Silver Light. The charm repeats each night. The Loving of Silver Light was, once, a woman from Sparta who lived in the ancient world in this city. She was popular with the Goddess of the most beautiful hunting, so that she liked wonderful forests.

Each tree was the most propitious trace of nature which she liked with all of her heart. She spared life and her son was unfortunately sick, and the Councilor of Sparta decided to fall him in a mountain slope.

It happened at his will. The mother was, for the sake of the love, a lot of worried and inwardly bitter with pain, so that she fell into circular volcano to suicide. The goddess of hunting rescued her. She told her anyhow: Wait for moonlit ghosts, that will carry you to the light of liberty. They come from Diana. All ghosts come only when a young dreamer throws down, into the volcano, a piece of paper with the meekest poem of magnificent tears. The simple woman from Sparta has become the Queen of the volcano and the fire. She had to sleep peacefully all day. She awakes withal every midnight, every time that the awoken and even so propitious moon wakes her with its silver sparkle.

For the sake of the warmth of the silver sparkle awakes her volcano-like ghost at each midnight with a longing and love for forgotten Sparta-worlds, for marvelous woodland and the fossilized goddesses who have forever sunken. Her soul could not be freed, because she had become Apollonian-ly beautiful she-ruler. Her enchanted place was this volcano. There, at midnight, some ghost of fire, water, air and earth had to find their silence and pleasure inside in the crater, before they flocked to the meekly propitious world, carrying the love, wonderful dreams, fulfillment and good feelings. Sometimes these powers argue with themselves because of the word-like malice, so that the volcano seems to become exploded.

The Loving of Silver Light liked the moon and its light. She has waited for the young dreamer and freeing through Diana' s ghosts. It was difficult to find this dreamer, because nearby nobody, but moonlit night saw into the volcano in the dark, and threw no poem inside.

In a gorgeous night a human from Poland Pavel came here and followed beautiful ways of she-wolves-songs and the ways, illuminated by lunar fulfillment. It led him into the crater of the dreamiest volcano. Er threw a piece of paper, with the poem, entitled: “The rambler and the time-like roads of Sparta”, because of the weirdness of the volcano, so that the Queen with the lunar ghosts have vanished with tender Diana's ghosts. In paradise she has become free and freed.
Since th
at time, the volcano has stopped burning. It ferments not any more. Only the moon aches to illuminate kind for hikers their ways.

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