Submissions by Hobo
The Hope of Love
Story
Some things seemed to bear relation to what was in the imagination. The sounds of the wind, the colors of the sky, the smell of the ocean.
18 mins
Words: 3718
Read Time: 18 mins
Read Time: 18 mins
The Hope Diamond
Story
When she was a young girl she had lived in the same country where they had found the largest diamond in the world.
17 mins
Words: 3440
Read Time: 17 mins
Read Time: 17 mins
Chicken and Sweetcorn
Story
Lucy had just plastered a bright yellow ticket on the vehicle when what seemed to be the owner dressed in a black suit confronted her.
‘What do you think you’re doing?’
11 mins
Words: 2242
Read Time: 11 mins
Read Time: 11 mins
One Day in a Cold November
Story
Arthur was tired. Between the greyness of the November sky and the rough dirty brown surf of the North Sea he stood alone contemplating the unfairness of what life had become.
10 mins
Words: 2093
Read Time: 10 mins
Read Time: 10 mins
Strange Encounter
Story
I found out that she had flown to Israel while under the influence of cocaine. She confided this to me later, after she felt she could trust me.
9 mins
(1)Words: 1902
Read Time: 9 mins
Read Time: 9 mins
The Springs of Ein Gedi
Story
At the top of the cliffs and to our right we could just see the great and mighty peaks of Masada. The place that history defines as a place of blood.
9 mins
(1)Words: 1865
Read Time: 9 mins
Read Time: 9 mins
The Hummingbird
Story
“The final war for the coming of the light is now here Caroline, it has started silently inside the inner consciousness of all mankind, you have just been waiting like so many others."
8 mins
Words: 1732
Read Time: 8 mins
Read Time: 8 mins
New Year's Resolution
Story
Bill was a charmer, well he thought he was at least. There was no way he could be without someone to talk to for less than an hour, to him it was torture.
7 mins
Words: 1579
Read Time: 7 mins
Read Time: 7 mins
The Gull
Story
It was a very beautiful bird, maligned though its name and presence so commonly was.
6 mins
Words: 1339
Read Time: 6 mins
Read Time: 6 mins
The Visitor
Story
I sat at a table enjoying myself picking out various ships and boats that dotted the English Channel when I was most rudely interrupted by a tap on my shoulder.
5 mins
(1)Words: 1127
Read Time: 5 mins
Read Time: 5 mins
Rainbow
Story
She lay on her bed and looked up at the poster of the rainbow on the pale blue ceiling. “I wonder what it is that attracts two people in the first place?”
5 mins
(3)Words: 1045
Read Time: 5 mins
Read Time: 5 mins
Every Picture Tells a Story
Story
She painted delicately he thought, her eyes tender with timidly engaging concentration and her hand shaking each time she dabbed away his tears. He couldn’t be sad anymore, she had seen to that.
5 mins
Words: 1008
Read Time: 5 mins
Read Time: 5 mins