Crocuses break through frozen soil as magpies watch from rooftops—a lyrical meditation on winter’s patience and spring’s...
Stories and Poems
Here are some stories and poems from Every Writer. Much of our stories and poems will be moving here in the future.
The snow had just started, the first of the year. Hazy light through the clouds outside the...
Bruce McRae’s ‘Momentary’ explores the paradoxical nature of time through vivid imagery and philosophical contemplation. The poem...
Of course I shall not pretend to consider it any matter for wonder, that the extraordinary case...
Walter de la Mare, born in 1873 in Kent, England, began his career as a bookkeeper before...
Some freaks sleep when they go to bed. No tossing and turning. No dread. No rehashing bad...
“Phil, I’m getting fearfully hungry. When are we going to strike civilization?”
Her small chest woke her. The heart rattling inside it. Like an alarm clock palpitating in secrecy,...
I spent fifteen years celebrating Christmas in share-houses around Brisbane, Australia. As a poor student, I rented...
Megan Denese Mealor echoes and erases in her native land of Jacksonville, Florida. A survivor of bipolar...
