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Writer's block is well-trodden territory, but this haiku portrays it with remarkable elegance; I have to appreciate the beautiful use of language in describing a failure to use language well. - GDeyke

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There's a lot of world building in the strong imagery, and that makes for effective flash fiction. - Suggested by DC-26 , Featured by Zara-Arletis

Broken Children, Precious ThingsWe came back wrong - or, at least, that's what they tell us.

Teeth just a hint too sharp. Mouths that don't close right. Limbs and spines that twist and lock in ways that human bodies were never meant to move - or, rather, that their bodies never do. And, under our fingernails, locked tight inside soft skin and all-too-human flesh, the claws.

We came back wrong. Not the human children who were taken, who'd never bite and scratch, never raise their voices, never embarrass them like this in public when everyone is staring do you want them to think you're mad?

We came back wrong. Which is to say, to some of them, we came back at all.

This piece brings up vivid images of winter and home, with such beautiful metaphors. I love it. - SingingFlames

Short and compelling, this story shows the impact of living one's life for others, with a satisfying conclusion. - GDeyke

Dress Up And HideHe hated this: the suit, the tie, the leather shoes cramping his feet. But it didn't matter what he wanted. He had to try, because it was for her; it's all she asked of him.

He regrets making that promise.

James put on a smile like he was supposed to do. He shook hands with people Claire wanted him to meet. He held meaningless conversations of small talk with people worth more than his life savings. He was careful to watch his words when he spoke - Claire told him her family wouldn't understand his sense of humor, and wasn't "familiar" with his "street lingo". He did everything she told him to do: from tie back his long hair, to take out al

This poem is so emotionally impactful and is especially effective with its use of imagery and extended metaphors. - Suggested by cursors-and-ellipses , Featured by JessaMar

i am the end of the worldI think that maybe I
am the Apocalypse.
I chew on poems about dew-sprinkled daffodils
and the way the sunset drip-drop bleeds into the ocean.
Something dark coils in me at the beauty of it all –
As if we are not all born of famine, of pestilence, of war,
of death.
As if existence is more than marching towards
the end of the world.

My stomach is a pit of rabid dogs.
What I throw into it, it devours,
and when I throw it nothing it howls for hours
then turns its teeth upon itself.
I hunger for a life that reads like a fairy tale,
humanity clawing at the edges of the hollow -
consumed by the narcissistic need to have a purpose,
to leave

I love the way this poem pulls together the various notions of hunger, acknowledging emptiness and fullness with gorgeous imagery. - Zara-Arletis

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