Submissions by JPYoung
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
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
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
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
A Sporting Fight
Story
‘I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense’. -
H. L. Mencken
10 mins
Words: 2073
Read Time: 10 mins
Read Time: 10 mins
Snowfire on the Eve of Epiphany
Story
‘You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.’ - Mary Pickford
5 mins
(1)Words: 1027
Read Time: 5 mins
Read Time: 5 mins
Follow the North Star to Happiness
Story
Enter your world of dreams…for the price of a ticket…
10 mins
Words: 2018
Read Time: 10 mins
Read Time: 10 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
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
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