Submissions by JPYoung
Our Lady of the Sub-Tropics
Story
A girl should be two things: who and what she wants. - Coco Chanel
23 mins
Words: 4635
Read Time: 23 mins
Read Time: 23 mins
The Royal Poodle Shakespearean Dramatics Company
Story
‘Alas, poor Dantés…we know them, Franco…’
10 mins
Words: 2045
Read Time: 10 mins
Read Time: 10 mins
The Costume Shop of Dreams and Desire
Story
Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story. - Mason Cooley
7 mins
Words: 1560
Read Time: 7 mins
Read Time: 7 mins
Journey to Halloween Past
Poem
Such are the autumn people. Beware of them. — Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
<1 min
Words: 150
Read Time: <1 min
Read Time: <1 min
The Funeral Patrol
Story
‘We sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf.’ — George Orwell
24 mins
Words: 4970
Read Time: 24 mins
Read Time: 24 mins
Familiar Sight from China Light
Story
'You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.' - Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
5 mins
Words: 1026
Read Time: 5 mins
Read Time: 5 mins
Picnic in Upton Park
Story
Life is a picnic on a precipice – W.H. Auden
13 mins
Words: 2671
Read Time: 13 mins
Read Time: 13 mins
Commando Existential
Story
‘War (conflict) means fighting (contact), and fighting (contact) means killing (inflicting & incurring casualties)’- Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest (politically incorrect male)
14 mins
Words: 2991
Read Time: 14 mins
Read Time: 14 mins
Big Deal at a Camellia Cotillion
Story
‘Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.’ — Gérard de Nerval
4 mins
Words: 981
Read Time: 4 mins
Read Time: 4 mins
Just One of Those Things
Story
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
5 mins
Words: 1013
Read Time: 5 mins
Read Time: 5 mins
The Danté’s One Day of the Year
Story
At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them…
13 mins
Words: 2654
Read Time: 13 mins
Read Time: 13 mins