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Literary Spotlight

A sad swan's song
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Mankind
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hopeless romantic
by thehoplessromantic in Poetry » Romantic


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    Literary Spotlight for August 2026

    Literary Spotlight for August 2026 Top 10 Overall: To the Girl in Gaza, From a Girl in Afghanistan by @victorroono i must let everyone i know know that i do ...

    Big Brother
    Big Brother - 17m ago

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  • Reviews » Poetry » Lyrical, Literature
    A sad swan's song

    ...okay. I might have clicked this because I love swans to the point of writing obsessively about them and needed to read your poem. :) Anyway! Those girls are just ...

    Snoink
    Snoink - 2h ago

  • Reviews » Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, Science Fiction
    Jaded Crown

    Oh, hello! :) This seems like a fantasy based more heavily on Slavic stuff, which is pretty cool... the snow, the way the people are described, the empress, and just... ...

    Snoink
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    before it was home it was you

    kiss marry kill you say my name and it is rife with disgust. i have grown to love this: if it is disdain, it is you. i'm the last one ...

    romanticchemist
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  • Reviews » Poetry » General, Romantic
    A Plentiful of Regrets

    Hi Myers, I was looking for a poem to review and noticed this didn't have any! So I thought I'd stop by and leave a few thoughts... First! On the ...

    alliyah
    alliyah - 4h ago

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    Junebug
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  • Short Story » Mystery / Suspense, Teen Fiction
    A Script for Seven Years (Chapter 4)

    A buried locket, a violent father, and a childhood trauma. Cal carries a suffocating secret to protect Alex, but time is running out. (Chapter 4)

    Junebug
    Junebug - 4h ago
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    LMS VII: The Gateway To The Kingdom

    LMS VII - Week 12 (August 31 - September 6, 2026); Word count: 1231 words She wished inside her heart his well-being. Her being was reaching inside the connection. There ...

    SylvanusGrace
    SylvanusGrace - 5h ago

  • Reviews » Short Story » Romantic, Spiritual
    Dream Scenario

    Hello, hello! :mrgreen: The thing that hurts the most is that if I had asked when I had a chance, she probably would’ve said yes. It’s too late to yearn ...

    vulpesvelox
    vulpesvelox - 5h ago

  • Reviews » Short Story » Romantic, Spiritual
    Dream Scenario

    I loved this, thinking of the future and who you could have. The thing that hurts the most is that if I had asked when I had a chance, she ...

    MrytleJinn
    MrytleJinn - 5h ago

  • Reviews » Short Story » Supernatural, Fantasy
    Five haunting Richardson tales

    Hi Creeper! This was a nice short collection of tales. Most were about Annabelle, and it might have been nice to compile all the Annabelle stories into one, then do ...

    4revgreen
    4revgreen - 6h ago

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    The Young Writers Society is becoming WriterFeed

    writerfeed-logo-2.png After more than two years of on-again, off-again discussion, a vote on whether to change the name of Young Writers Society to WriterFeed was held from August 1 through ...

    Nate
    Nate - 6h ago

  • Reviews » Poetry » Nature, Science
    Rejuvenation

    Wow! This is such an amazing poem. If you don't get an A+, I don't know what's going on. First, the emotion of this poem, despite it being a biology ...

    Junebug
    Junebug - 7h ago

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I only know that learning to believe in the power of my own words has been the most freeing experience of my life. It has brought me the most light. And isn't that what a poem is? A lantern glowing in the dark.
— Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X