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• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Once Upon a Snack

  

  By OnTheLoose, San Ramon, CA

  I had once enjoyed eating Costco tortilla chips. The ground corn meal sparkled with fresh salt and the whole taste that flooded my tongue was filled with crunch—a perfect food to provide comfort whenever I was stressed. However, as all things pass with time, my world was cruelly destroyed when Cos...
• Nonfiction > Sports
  Sweat Sisters

  

  By OnTheLoose, San Ramon, CA

  I used to believe that running was a solitary sport. That nothing could come between me and the relentless pounding of my feet on hard cement, the steady rhythm that drilled into the ground with every effortless stride. Sometimes, the open sky and endless rolling hills still fool me into thinking I'...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Forever Song

  

  By OnTheLoose, San Ramon, CA

  Golden hills shed silver light, heavens stream down. The angels of fallen hover, listening to the lamentations of the living. Chords left unstruck, wailing winds deep through a river of souls as they are swept to eternity. The angels greet them, calling “Come, brothers, ...
• Fiction > Romance
  Don't Look Back

  

  By OnTheLoose, San Ramon, CA

  First comes the shock. A clammy cold settles on my sweat-lathered skin. Tears that burn in my red-rimmed eyes fog my vision. I am in a dense forest of gray, its swirling depths impenetrable by the dim light of my soul. Panic. Every muscle trembles, every bone is stiff and weak. For a...
• Nonfiction > All Nonfiction
  The Leap

  

  By OnTheLoose, San Ramon, CA

  You’re lying in a meadow. The warm grass brushes lightly against your skin. Sun beats down upon your smiling face. A butterfly flutters overhead, and a spring bud spirals down from the sky. It’s comfortably warm, and you allow your eyes to close for a moment… You’re on a cliff. The wind ...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  To Remember...

  

  By OnTheLoose, N/A, CA

  His thick hands gnarled with old age clench the steering wheel with a timeless strength. Skin of deep brown stretches over his prominent knuckles. The fingernails are chipped, worn and torn with careless wear. Calluses upon the palms are slick with sweat against the new leather. Hiding under bus...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Echo in Eternity

  

  By OnTheLoose, N/A, CA

  A whisper, soft yet clear, caressing the souls listening. A moonlit star shines bright, illuminating the ongoing road and the whisper grows louder, louder, into a howling storm tearing the pathways, scattering the twisting roads of fate until the storm breaks and fades away, forgotte...
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  Little Cottage

  

  By OnTheLoose, San Ramon, CA
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  The River Seine

  

  By OnTheLoose, San Ramon, CA
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  Touching the Horizon

  

  By OnTheLoose, San Ramon, CA
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  Sentinels of the Sky

  

  By OnTheLoose, San Ramon, CA