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Above From Below Part 6
Dragging in Major Kohl had not been in the plan, but he was unsure why she'd bothered to find him in Texas. This wasn't her fight, and Nico wasn't her brother. In Rick Steele's distrustful mind, something about the Major turning on her command, and against the country, by sharing the truth with him, didn't sit well. As he hadn't stared a gift horse in the mouth, Major Kohl's revelations about Nico's accident were a blessing, but to Rick, it wasn't that simple.
By Jason Morton3 days ago in Fiction
The Gnash Lawn
The sun over the suburbs was a cruel, mocking eye, bleaching the life out of the cracked pavement and the dying stalks of what Gary Wallace once called a lawn. It wasn't a lawn anymore; it was a battlefield of waist-high weeds and patches of dirt that looked like mange on an old dog.
By Meko James 3 days ago in Fiction
The Lower Shelf
The Lower Shelf by luccian.layth An old bookstore on a street he won't remember the name of. Ghaith pulls a book from the bottom shelf, wipes the dust with his finger without meaning to. A woman stands nearby reading upright, as though standing is part of the act.
By LUCCIAN LAYTH3 days ago in Fiction
The House Remembers
Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value (2025) is a film that operates with deceptive simplicity. At first glance, it appears to be another entry in the lineage of European family dramas—restrained, introspective, concerned with memory and emotional estrangement. Yet beneath this familiar surface lies a far more intricate structure: a film about the impossibility of direct communication, and the desperate human tendency to replace speech with form, gesture, and performance. What Trier constructs is not merely a story about a broken family, but a meditation on how art becomes the last refuge of those who can no longer speak truthfully to one another.
By Peter Ayolov3 days ago in Fiction
The Cost of Waiting. Content Warning.
Peanut wasn't one of the cats who came to us. We went to him. At the time we weren't a sanctuary yet. We were living in an apartment, loving the cats we already had. One day I was standing on my balcony when I heard someone talking about a cat that was lying by the doorstep to another apartment building. At first, we weren't going to intervene. After some time, we knew we had to.
By Special Little Whiskers Kitten Sanctuary3 days ago in Fiction
What's It All For?
What’s It All For The phrase ‘the forest for the trees’ is used repeatedly, leading me to overlook how personal struggles blocked my broader perspective. By late 1998, during my failing six-year marriage, I was overwhelmed by panic, which had become my norm. My marriage to Spence was never ideal; escaping a cruel family, I clung to him as my only source of validation. That was a mistake. After six years of ostracism for marrying him, I was trying to hold on for reasons I couldn't explain.
By Alexandra Grant3 days ago in Fiction
Time Bomb. Top Story - April 2026. Content Warning.
Theresa hobbled forward like a broken clock. Tick…tick tock, tock, tick… She thought about the events in her young life that had brought her to this moment. What was the ticking bomb that pushed her over the edge?
By Julie Lacksonen3 days ago in Fiction
