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mark william smith
I have been writing now as a hobby for 20 years.
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AT THE CROSSROADS
The hellish nightmare called the Civil War ended a couple years ago, and I haven’t yet been able to get my post war life moving in any kind of direction. Seems I am having a harder time adjusting than many of the soldiers I knew during the war.
By mark william smith2 years ago in Fiction
The Cairn Beside the Lake
And so it came to pass that King Ertharion, Tenth King of Lombaia, stood beside the still lake below unrelenting and unassailable cliffs with the remainder of his harried host. In what was the tenth year of his reign and his forty-fourth upon this great green earth, Menigo the Betrayer, cousin of King Ertharion, pressed home his false claim.
By Matthew J. Fromm6 days ago in Fiction
The Flame of Sunlight
The day the sun cracked, I was hanging laundry on the roof. Not a poetic “sunset” crack, either. It was a sound, a real sound, like ice giving way on a frozen river. The sky went white, then thin, then wrong—colors leaking through where blue used to be.
By abualyaanart5 days ago in Fiction
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