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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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Flash Fiction

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, ...

By Nzan Kikon·823 words·4 min read

Verse

Featured Poetry

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Poetry

An Eternal Summer with you.

"I can’t hold enough of you in my hands" -Franz Kafka Give me a lifetime to hold you Give me unending days to worship you Give me timeless moments to ...

By Nzan Kikon·219 words·Poem
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Poetry

The Sins of Humanity

“Well, if God doesn’t exist, who is laughing at us?” Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Sins of Humanity : I am blind I am faithless I am estranged from my creato...

By Nzan Kikon·188 words·Poem
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Poetry

UNATTAINABLE

“You are like an angel, nothing touches you” Fyodor Dostoevsky. UNATTAINABLE : Far above Terra Firma you glide nonchalant of the natural laws You have...

By Nzan Kikon·189 words·Poem
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Poetry

Art will save us

“We have art in order not to die of the truth” Friedrich Nietzsche. Art will save us : And the truth is Van Gogh saved me from decay Immersed myself i...

By Nzan Kikon·174 words·Poem

The Eternal Canon

Know Your Literary Giants

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.

— George R.R. Martin
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