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What Anyone Could Expect

The music of his stroll was measured–a strummed chord over a single beat that pulsed from the ground in sync with his blood. He found his fingers tapping out the landscape, at first not with fluidity, but gradually his gestures acquired rhythm until he could anticipate the slightest breeze or falling leaf like the shrill [...]

Posted January 7, 2010 by Kelli Anne Noftle | Filed Under: Fictionread on

Visiting Time Is Over

Thom couldn’t understand it. He had not been allowed to see his mother for six months and now his precious time with her was being cut short. He held onto her hand, tears running down his hot red cheeks. The nurse tried to pull him away but he would not let go.
“Visiting time is over,” [...]

Posted November 19, 2009 by Jeremy McCool | Filed Under: Fictionread on

the past modernist(s)

Welcome to the past modernist(s), a community of young, adventurous writers who are often self-conscious, mostly over-ambitious, likely self-absorbed and almost always under-motivated. the past modernist(s) is a place to express things one might wish to express if one were uninhibited by bottom lines, government censorship, political correctness, concrete shoes, alien mind probes, preteen peer pressure, mother-in-laws, or the season's fashions. The curious will find more about the past modernist(s) here.