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Short Story / Flash Fiction

January 01, 2019

Reads: 77

Comments: 7

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Although fiction, there are many families in this exact position. Read More

Tags: bleak, pretence, crisis, housing

Featured Review by Sue Harris

"This is a heart rending read, Hully, and yes, although we've now entered 2020, the continued plight of families such as this one is undiminished..." Read More

Poem / Non-Fiction

August 12, 2018

Reads: 76

Comments: 1

Shelves: 2

The Booksie Classic House

What if there's no one for you there, you stopped combing your hair and nothing is happening in time, nor someone looking after you ever. yes, dear. you are depressed now and you know about it. oh, dear. get up. do this, do that. You are tired of being… Read More

Tags: crisis

Essay / Romance

March 15, 2018

Reads: 171

Comments: 4

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Thought epidemic Read More

Tags: crisis, epidemic

You know the language of love from a stranger always starts with a smile. What is the true story always depict in few words here ? Let us listen now. :) Read More

Tags: gift, welcome, crisis, migrant

Short Story / Humor

September 17, 2017

Reads: 234

Comments: 2

The Booksie Classic House

This is a republished edit of a humorous short-story from my blog. Rated "G" for general consumption. Read More

Tags: magic, humorous, wizard, identity, harry, potter, crisis, voldemort, potion, dumbledore, albus, muggle

Peter a security officer at Dwarfforce prepares for a military operation which will change his view of the world forever. Read More

Tags: sad, deep, mature, crisis, climate-change

This is a story about a crisis that I experienced in my life. Read More

Tags: scared, behind, crisis, left, left-behind

David sat in his car waiting for the driving test examiner to arrive. His anxiety levels were approaching critical; the pressure was on, he could not afford to fail for the fourth time. Read More

Tags: humor, humour, sex, career, crisis

Short Story / Humor

April 19, 2017

Reads: 230

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Glen would have to go to his dealer and explain the situation and ask for more time. Getting his dealer to believe that his wife had accidentally put his jacket with £10,000 worth of cocaine in the washing machine would not be easy. His dealer was not a man to… Read More

Tags: humor, drugs, relationships, cocaine, crisis

The problems began two weeks before after his company’s annual conference when his boss came ‘on to’ him and made it very clear what she wanted, and she was not drunk or even tipsy. This came out of the blue; she had always been so formal and correct. Read More

Tags: sex, boss, arsenal, crisis, orgasm

Book / Humor

February 02, 2017

Reads: 400

Comments: 3

Shelves: 2

The Booksie Classic House

Adrian was short and fat, and to make matters worse he had a squint. His black curly hair was receding and at thirty two he looked more like fifty. He was an only child and still lived with his doting mother. But now things were changing, he had a woman. Read More

Tags: humor, humour, mother, girlfriend, crisis

I am an international student in UK. I woke up one morning after a dream about my home country and was very worried in that dream about packing up (I was soon about to pack up in two months and leave for my home country). I had a sense of… Read More

Tags: student, researcher, crisis, traveller

Short Story / Literary Fiction

April 29, 2016

Reads: 994

Comments: 3

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A family/love story set in Turkey, with reference to the Syrian Refugee Crisis Read More

Tags: love, family, turkey, crisis

Poem / Fantasy

February 10, 2016

Reads: 289

Comments: 7

Shelves: 1

The 'The Odd Ones' House

A poem in honour of the video game, Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Read More

Tags: time, peace, rest, crisis, zelda

Book / Romance

December 31, 2015

Reads: 300

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

" Sometimes we don't know the preciousv value of the things we have until we lose them, sometimes we feel like the only way out is giving up, sometimes when we're at our worst, something happens...a glince of hope shines in the darkness to show that we have so much… Read More

Tags: love, religion, crisis

Article / Other

September 06, 2015

Criticizing the situation in Lebanon. Read More

Tags: world, politics, east, speech, analysis, arab, crisis, lebanon

First chapter excerpt from self-published novel, If Butterflies Could See. Meet Sophia: Shy yet precocious, charming though self-obsessed, privileged but sad, your otherwise typical nineteen-year-old Brown University student. About to start her second year of college, tragedy hits when her autistic brother falls seventy-two feet off a cliff to his… Read More

Tags: death, fiction, poetry, adult, music, tears, sad, girl, age, tragedy, young, woman, butterflies, coming, literary

Poem / Memoir

December 16, 2014

Reads: 361

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

For human birth is credited with the supreme form in existence, has there been more like this? We cant imagine, right! Read More

Tags: survival, hunger, poverty, living, famine, crisis

A poem about the crash landings we experience in life. Read More

Tags: life, survival, angels, guardian, instinct, crisis, prose-poetry, re3silience

Money motivates us Read More

Tags: life, people, money, crisis, financial, bankrupt

Today's unemployment and Inflation is deadly Read More

Tags: politics, government, surviving, crisis, camps, fema, tactics, destroyer, requisition

Battling against hypocrisies, sadomasochism and perfunctory pursuits of pop benchmarks of successes, he refuses the passion-oriented male worldview of karma and life’s purposes. Metamorphosed by compassion, that love’s innocence fills him with, he opts for a journey that takes him far away from the stupidity of self-worth, calculated in terms… Read More

Tags: love, fiction, life, story, mind, journey, personal, success, forgiveness, innocence, urban, compassion, literary, media, sanity

Susana Ripoll is a young medical student who leads a life of apparently very simple. After the death of her mother, she combines her studies with work in a perfumery for economically helping her father, who is three years out of work, and also to pay for her own college.… Read More

Tags: society, mystery, drama, youth, thriller, economic, crisis

Make a short story or poem using these song titles from the rock band Disturbed Read More

Tags: horror, band, god, confusion, life, pain, conflict, monster, alone, night, song, moment, darkness, fire, mind

An in depth review of the peaks and valleys of my quarter life crisis as it came to an end last year. Read More

Tags: life, work, crisis, quarter

Opinion piece about the crisis in the Ukraine. Read More

Tags: military, war, conflict, russia, peace, united_states, intervention, crisis, ukraine, nato, crimea, european_union

An essay on the current economic and social crisis ravaging my home country, Greece. A tribute to the struggles and achievements of a previous generation that might show us the way. Read More

Tags: war, history, greece, crisis, financial

Short Story / Literary Fiction

February 01, 2014

Reads: 252

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A man goes to wake of close friend that he hadn't seen in years. -----------------(Author Note)------------------ I wrote this a long time ago. I believe before 2011, but I had been turning it over my head for sometime prior to that. I had gone to the wake of a friend's… Read More

Tags: death, emotion, friends, cancer, dead, wake, crisis

Poem / Other

November 01, 2013

Reads: 288

Comments: 2

The Booksie Classic House

friendship is good thing and in our life god given three gift first one is mother second one is father and third one is friendship Read More

Tags: friendship, social, life, world, beginning, hand, survival, help, matter, friends, human, others, without, important, ever

Set in glitzy Las Vegas, this mystery novel unravels two grotesque crimes. Relive the heady days of the U.S. real estate bubble when corrupt lenders – and many other players -- dealt painful fraud that led to the country’s financial bust of 2008. Look inside the mind of a Vegas… Read More

Tags: murder, mystery, real, crisis, las, vegas, estate, financial

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