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01/03/2026

Little Mistakes Will Ruin Your Day — JD Clapp’s Short Story - Written Tales

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Blood slips into his sight as pain cuts through his shoulder and back. He braces against the cold ground, fighting dizziness long enough to stand and search for whatever brought him here.

01/02/2026

Everyone Learns Differently — Short Non-Fiction by Nancy Lindell - Written Tales

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After-school detention traps her with a teacher asking about goals, while worksheets, tests, and forced conversations echo louder than the room, leaving her stuck between dread and one brief flicker…

01/02/2026

For the sake of the game: 1964 CE — Non-Fiction by Alan Bern - Written Tales

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For the sake of the game: 1964 CE humorously recounts the author’s junior high days, where he and his friends played croquet—sometimes for money—in a twist on the game’s genteel reputation.

01/01/2026

His Butterfly — Flash Fiction by Thomas Elson - Written Tales

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A pharmacy aisle returns him to Sacred Heart school, where an accident left him drenched in blood with scars that’ll last a lifetime.

01/01/2026

Fifth Man in the Room — Short Non-Fiction by George Frost - Written Tales

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Chest pain seizes him before dawn, sirens nearing as he drifts, remembering the night’s mounting frustration and the sharp panic tightening around every breath while boots climb the stairs toward him.

12/31/2025

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12/31/2025

Anatomy of a Peaceful Planet — Short Fiction by Ronald Wolff - Written Tales

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12/31/2025

The Swallows and The Sycamore — Short Story by Amber Platel - Written Tales

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A sycamore outlasts construction, its roots scarred beneath hard soil. Swallows vanish, squirrels do not return, and a tree stands alone, repeating a memory as the light shifts against its trunk.

12/30/2025

Uncertain Prayer — Poem by Evie Groch - Written Tales

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Morning seeps through the colander of leaves. A sapling claims space. Logs take on ritual. Congregants gather by accident, their hands awkward, while lichen clings to the bark.

12/30/2025

See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Be Evil — Dru Dixon’s Short Nonfiction - Written Tales

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A man looks back on the years shaped by other people’s pity, recalling dumpsters, short buses, and forced bravado as he tries to understand the version of himself everyone else claimed to know.

12/29/2025

Bone Dry and Scorched — Suzanna C. de Baca’s Poem - Written Tales

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She follows the old routines—pond, well, sink—only to meet floating fish, foul water, and rusted taps, each moment tightening the fear of what might remain for anyone after her.