Satin Saturdays, BANG-BANG!

Shooting Saturday

Sitting there in the sun, she felt her mind was void. At last! Spring has come, and the chestnuts along the boulevard had bloomed white and tippy like candles. Tiny white and yellow daisy-likes spotted the green wetness of the grass. The weather was still cool with spring freshness [...]

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Beautiful Zombie flash

Beauty Queen

“By God, it’s so hot.” Sheila thought and tried to stretch her arms, yawning. Before she knew anything, she noticed the utter darkness. “Am I in a cellar?” she murmured. She couldn’t see her arms did not stretch. With a grunt, Sheila tried to stand up. Failed. The darkness was as thick as [...]

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Twisted Tuesday, short fiction

Two for Tuesday

“A twisted mind will get you nowhere nice” he repeated to himself while splashing the freezing water over his face. That was something his father used to tell him when he was little. He cupped his hands and stared at the water for a while. He looked on as it started to [...]

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Accepting the Award

Following this pretty month of April, during which I celebrated poetry and web-friendship to the full, I happened to receive the Liebster Award! I hardly knew what it was and how I have come to deserve it, yet – here it is!

It came my way by way of Misky’s Alphabet Soup de Jour [...]

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Some words

For the past couple of weeks I have been able to keep up with the Poem-A-Day challenge, yet not really been able to enjoy as much reading as I would have liked. For the past few days, none.

Although I have been writing/poeming happily away, I find reading other’s poems very refreshing, encouraging and a [...]

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Fear Off

My dear poetic friend, Salvatore Buttaci whom I met through Poetic Asides, as many other fine poets, posted the following Biblical verse just a couple of minutes ago, thus reminding me how long a time has passed since I last leafed through the Bible, and which came as a sudden and almost portentous inspiration in [...]

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Sombre Chapbook live on Amazon!

Here is my Sombre Chapbook already live on Amazon.co.uk: 

or, you may see it on Amazon.com: HERE

It is available for lending, buying and looking inside. I hope you enjoy it at least as much as I enjoyed making it.

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Big shoes

The staff at We Write Poems came up with a glorious prompt: Civil Rights. I remembered what I saw at the Airport in Helsinki just over a fortnight ago. Well, of course, I remember the same thing happening to me just over fifteen years ago, at the Airport in Amsterdam. Utter humiliation is the expression [...]

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small stone #30

By God, the month is almost over and still no #amwriting done in any serious way. That is how you may know that I had a lot of work to do and that I executed numerous responsible and serious business things on my agenda. For instance, I flew to Finland and back, went to a [...]

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small stone #22

Snow falling and melting right away. That is the curse of temperate climate. Home is dry and warm, so nice a place to stay. Sunday is my fav ritual.

© 2012 Mariya Koleva

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