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A little space for original poetry.
  • No clue what he's rolling his eyes for lmao.

    Would love to see you there!

  • A little space for original poetry.

    !originalpoetry@literature.cafe

    I've wanted to start this community for a while. I feel a lack of original writing on Lemmy. Poetry tends to be short form and more accessible to many.

    I intend to post my own writings, including some of my most personal stuff; writings not a single soul has seen. I would love to have you all join in, as lurkers, as posters, as poets, as enthusiasts. I look forward to seeing this community grow!

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    The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • This link will give you quite a few RLS stories!

  • The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson

    OK this was the last one. Had to post a few for Halloween, sorry for the dump. No other day defines an entire genre so I couldn't let this opportunity go.

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    β€œThe Signal-Man” by Charles Dickens

    There's 3 ghost stories there, but the signal man in specific is what I wanted to highlight.

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    Shiva, Open Your Eye by Laird Barron
    www.nightmare-magazine.com Shiva, Open Your Eye - Nightmare Magazine

    The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it.

    Shiva, Open Your Eye - Nightmare Magazine

    Well, its also diwali

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    Zombie By Joyce Carol Oates
    www.newyorker.com β€œZombie,” by Joyce Carol Oates

    Fiction, from 1994: β€œThe idea of creating aΒ zombieΒ for my own purposes came to me in a brainstorm five years ago.”

    β€œZombie,” by Joyce Carol Oates

    Use bypass paywalls clean d.

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    The Wishing Pool by Tananarive Due
    www.uncannymagazine.com The Wishing Pool - Uncanny Magazine

    Joy nearly got lost on the root-knotted red dirt path off of Highway 99, losing sight of the gaps between the live oaks and Spanish moss that fanned across her hood and windows like fingertips. Driving back to her family’s cabin twenty years later reminded her that the woods had rarely been restful ...

    The Wishing Pool - Uncanny Magazine

    Do the woods do it for you? Well then this is for you

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    Province Speed Sonner
  • Oh yeah, thats the stuff

  • Araby by Joyce
  • Yes! Dubliners is brilliant

  • The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gillins
    www.owleyes.org The Yellow Wallpaper Full Text - The Yellow Wallpaper - Owl Eyes

    Read Full Text and Annotations on The Yellow Wallpaper The Yellow Wallpaper at Owl Eyes

    The Yellow Wallpaper Full Text - The Yellow Wallpaper - Owl Eyes

    There is a very unique creepiness to this, not horror tho.

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    Araby by Joyce
    www.owleyes.org Araby Full Text - Araby - Owl Eyes

    Read Full Text and Annotations on Araby Araby at Owl Eyes

    Araby Full Text - Araby - Owl Eyes

    I don't wanna spoil this. So I won't say why I like it, but you won't regret reading this.

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    The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Hemingway

    How do you folks feel about links to the genius website. I feel weird linking it but it's decent imo.

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    Some writing advice
  • Yeeep me too

  • Scheherazade by Haruki Murakami
  • This is a worse ui but without a paywall in case y'all don't have a paywall bypass.

    https://www.scribd.com/document/716154315/Murakami-Haruki-Scheherazade-New-Yorker-13-Oct-2014

  • Scheherazade by Haruki Murakami
  • This is a short story from the collection 'Men without women'.

    Here's a link to Anna's archive:

    https://annas-archive.org/search?index=&page=1&q=Men+without+women+murakami&sort=

    Otherwise you can read it from the link by bypassing the paywall using the extension, bypass paywalls clean d.

    Good luck! And I do strongly suggest getting the extension anyways. Even if you intend to download the book for this story.

  • Scheherazade by Haruki Murakami
    www.newyorker.com Scheherazade

    Fiction by Haruki Murakami: β€œEach time they had sex, she told Habara a strange and gripping story afterward.”

    Scheherazade

    Its ..... You've gotta read this folks, I don't know how else to put this.

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    Yesterday, by Haruki Murakami
  • If you liked Norwegian Wood, you'll love this. Honestly I like most of his work and think this is worth reading anyways but perhaps I'm a bit biased.

  • Yesterday, by Haruki Murakami
    www.newyorker.com Yesterday, by Haruki Murakami

    β€œI wanted to find out why a beautiful girl like her would want to go out with a weird character like Kitaru.”

    Yesterday, by Haruki Murakami
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    You'd better
  • An apostrophe is just an echo dot. So I get why youre mad

  • You'd better
  • Why yellow the black? Are you pro gentrification?

    /s

  • You'd better
  • Were you now? Couldn't be me lol. I would never. Like really, why don't you believe me? I pinky promise that wouldn't happen to me

  • You'd better
  • I guess we'll never know 😭

  • You'd better
  • Found the pic that way.

  • Beyond lies the wub - Philip K.Dick
  • The slovenly wub might well have said: Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools.

    No need to get personal Phil 😭😭

  • Sonny’s Blues By James Baldwin
  • Brilliant stuff

  • Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death by James Tiptree Jr
    www.lightspeedmagazine.com Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death - Lightspeed Magazine

    β€”I am hugely black and hopeful, I bounce on six legs along the mountains in the new warm! . . . Sing the changer, Sing the stranger! Will the changes change forever? . . . All my hums have words now. Another change!

    Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death - Lightspeed Magazine
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    Ugh I know
  • Happy to help

  • Ugh I know
  • Isn't this that decade old copypasta?

  • The Rocking-Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence
    www.classicshorts.com The Rocking-Horse Winner--D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

    This Web site is dedicated to the wonderful world of the short story and to all who enjoy reading shorts stories as I do. I will try to add a few short stories every month.

    One of the greatest stories I've ever read. If you love a psychoanalytical story or supernatural fiction, give it a go!

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    A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings By Gabriel Garcia MΓ‘rquez
  • I cannot recommend this enough. Magical realism is one of my favourite genres and ggm is perhaps the best writer of the genre ever

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