'No really, I have a five wine limit.' She lifted her glass to the light and peered through it. 'Why five, isn't that a little arbitrary?' Dan smiled, clinking his glass against hers. This date's going

'A river of stars.' He pulled his scarf a little tighter. The damp from the grass seeping through his jeans helping the cold worm deep to his bones. 'I still remember the first night we saw it together.

@tinypaleokitchen won my art contest, calling for a piece of artwork or photograph to be used as a story prompt for this contest. This is the winning photograph. Rules Using this photograph as a story

He pulled the wheel sideward to avoid the roadkill that lay splattered in the road. Another one? This stretch of road near the old quarry always seemed to have something dead on the road. As he drove on

When I saw the fantastic contest by @originalworks, I really felt inspired to enter. The contest post can be found at this link. My entry is below. ‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡‡ Incursion complete... He was

@OriginalWorks Writing Contest! Status: CLOSED. Winners Announced! You guys have been great. Thanks to all the great users, @OriginalWorks is growing. The long term goal was always to curate and promote

He squirted aftershave onto his hands before rubbing them on his neck and face. 'You're amazing, did I tell you that?' He grinned at Julie. His face beamed like a schoolboy who had finally made it with

Darkness tight and smothering The early morning cold Dawn delayed till later The year becoming old It's not till my arrival At my place of chains and blight That the sun claws at the horizon To chase away

Today @ned announced a new steem based protocol, Smart Media Tokens. What does it mean? It means that other sites and content creation platforms will be able to monetise their users for producing, voting

The red seas have calmed. The market is starting to look a little more settled than it has in the previous weeks. Surely this will not do. Who will the bankers or the powers that be wheel out to confound

Quite the sensationalist headline don't you think? Yet, it's true. Through careful analysis of many many successful blogs and bloggers I found the key. That is correct. The key to making it big in steemit

When creating a post on steemit it is important to tag your post correctly. It helps people find your content who are interested in that area. Tags are important for many reasons on steemit. Ultimately

This is the official Genesis Post for the POCKET token. If you wish to opt-in to the Pocket protocol and claim your initial stake of 1,000,001 POCKET tokens, all you need to do is resteem this post before

The markets have taken a beating recently. Be that from the recent Chinese ICO ban or the renewed rumours of the banning of bitcoin. Enough said on that one. It is simply not going to happen. There are

It will be ok he said, Reaching over, clasping my hand. I wanted to believe, I wanted to understand. How could he go? Leave our family just like that? He said he loved her, The filthy disloyal rat. And

'And you are sure this is what you want?' 'Yes, I am sure.' Brax sighed softly as he looked at the photos the other man had supplied. The woman in them was in her early fifties. She looked happy. He slid

An entry into the funny community meme challenge run by @fibra59. You can find the details here - I wonder if it will even take that long before we are getting it out with androids :-)

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I just delegated over 1000 steempower using minnowbooster delegation service. It feels quite amazing that we can do this. I am no whale but to think that my small amount of SP can be used by others instead

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