As I snuggled close to my mum, I could feel the warmth of her fur on me. My sister was trying to get in my spot where it was warm, I wouldn’t budge. It was almost feeding time and my mum would go out of the cave and hunt something. As she walked out of Read More
By Sanaa. If I had just one wish to make the world a better place, what would I wish for? If I had just one wish to make the world a better place, I would wish for nobody to go through poverty or homelessness. Poverty and homelessness can be unfair, life would be pretty hard, Read More
Fires they are a burning, churning, disconcerting Mother Nature’s fury learning earning the respect. Respect the big and little, one’s age twelve, do not bear When they light a fire, bring in ire, make things dire, Bring lost love close to the wire. May they walk with those burnt bodies, change their bands, hold their Read More
Jiggly By Violet 10 years old And lastly a cup of vinegar. SPLASH! The contents of Mr Gilbert’s orange slimy potion had splatted all over his clean white lab. That was not meant to happen he thought, his grey frizzy hair falling all over his face. Out of the corner of his eye Mr Read More
Invisible Emma By Jasmine 8 years old Emma was sitting in her bedroom with nothing to do. She was feeling bored and wanted to get her notebook so she could do a drawing. She could not remember where she has left her book and drawing pencils so had to start looking around her room. “Where Read More
The Sundowner, by Kaitlyn Rutledge Shortlisted for the Sydney Living Museums A Thousand Words Historical Fiction Competition I arrived home to our station, on the steam train one afternoon. My knuckles bloody and sore from a few swift smacks of the cane. At the front gate, a man, leaning against the wooden strainer post. Read More
CHELSEA GAMES By Oscar James D. Chapter 1. One day, a kid called Oscar, is training in his bedroom to get into the Chelsea FC soccer team. He looks at the posters on his wall of the Chelsea team while he’s training, and he gets the idea to try out for the team. His Read More
It’s a bully atmosphere – RIGHT HERE, Don’t close your ears, it won’t disappear Society is diseased with this unease, kids on their knees, Maliciousness floating upon the breeze. Listen: It’s all around, it makes no sound… It can be found behind the screens, in evil words up and downstream In pacts, in gangs, Read More
John wasn’t coming home for Christmas. Stupid Premier Palace-Chuck had slammed shut the Queensland border mid-flight in her ongoing toddler tantrum because NSW had one-and-a-half new Covid cases. John had no choice but to go into hotel quarantine for two weeks up there. And without John, our Christmas light was snuffed. Literally and figuratively – Read More
#slampoetry It’s Christmas time, a good sign, but today, not all is fine There’s Armageddon We look to Heaven But a virus rages on, bullies swarm, become the norm. It’s Christmas time, the bells they chime, we all drink wine But there are homeless Those who hope less At this time of spending, over-extending, feasting, Read More
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