Novel Allen

Joined March 2021

1113 stories

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You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. (Maya Angelou). Genuine accomplishment is not about financial gain, but about dedicating oneself to activities that bring joy and fulfillment.

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THE EPIGRAPHICAL BULL
I have always found bullfighting, boxing and wrestling to be the most insane and downright stupid of sports. Busted lips, busted heads, beating each other to a literal pulp and squeezing the daylight out of each other. Really?.
By Novel Allen5 years ago in Fiction
THE TOP SECRET SOCIETY
I grabbed the innocent looking brown package and ran. They always place it in the red box. But my instinct tells me that this time it is the brown one for certain.
By Novel Allen5 years ago in Fiction
SURVEYS...BAH HUMBUG
I'm filled up to the WAZOO with blooming surveys. WAZOO (consisting of or containing meaningless words, 'Webster's') PLEASE, can I just return to the jungle, or at least to
By Novel Allen5 years ago in Poets
THROUGH the faded Marigolds
There are four main varieties of marigolds. The French marigold, the Signet marigold, the African and the Triploid hybrids marigold.
By Novel Allen5 years ago in Fiction
EMBRACED BY CLOUDS AT 13000 FEET
I flew above the clouds today. Literally and figuratively As the iron bird ascended And I, in new-found awe gazed out the window
By Novel Allen5 years ago in Poets
I AM EPHEMERAL not TRANSIENT
The moon was RED?. Not blood red, but an eerie spectral magenta red, the type of hue not associated with monochromatic light. There was this calming perception of interchanging green and blue lights.
By Novel Allen5 years ago in Fiction
DARN NEEDLE, I KEEP GETTING STUCK
I had no plans to enter this challenge. I see so many talented and amazing entries in these creative challenges. It amazes me the minds of these creators, I admire them and envy them a little at the same time. I do have my little quirks that I try my hands at from time to time.
By Novel Allen5 years ago in Journal
GALEOPHOBIA
The truth about sharks: Far from being 'killing machines', they have personalities, best friends and an exceptional capacity for learning. (A quote from Independent news).
By Novel Allen5 years ago in Fiction
THE ACCIDENTAL MURDERS
I am tired of watching silly movies about college students being depicted as less than intelligent. They made it to college for Pete's sake.( Who is Pete anyway?) Give them the credit that is due to them.
By Novel Allen5 years ago in Fiction
A barn, a witch and greed
"Two turns of de hourglass to decide you fate." The ebony skinned, extremely tall, lithe, sparsely dressed, lovely and menacing young woman said, staring at us without blinking...
By Novel Allen5 years ago in Fiction
COTTON, the bane of my ancestors
I STOOD BENEATH THE IMPOSSIBLY TALL COTTON TREES AND CHANNELLED; acknowledged; MY ANCESTORS. Cotton tree Stolen from the African Continent, where we were royalty, royal and proud
By Novel Allen5 years ago in Poets
Dragons and knights, witches and metaphoric princes
Back when I was a child, before life removed all the innocence( the immortal words of the Luther Vandross song), I loved fairytales. Or maybe I just loved the idea of living vicariously through all the adventures (good and not so good) of the many characters.
By Novel Allen5 years ago in Fiction