Gerald Holmes
Bio
Born on the east coast of Canada. Travelled the world for my job and discovered that kindness is the most attractive feature in any human.
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Stories (137/0)
Rising Up
Grade school in China was difficult for Aili, as her family were impoverished and not respected by the other families. Her father worked hard every day, buying and selling at the local fish markets, but barely made enough each day for them to eat. He moved from a small village to the city of Guangzhou as a young man, trying to provide for his family; but his dreams of making it big never materialized, as he slaved each day just to survive.
By Gerald Holmes8 months ago in Chapters
- Top Story - August 2023
All Summer Long
Challenge #1 Sweet Summer Song: Pick a song that represents summer for you. Use the song as the title of your piece, and to inspire either a poem or a short story/micro fiction about summer. Feel free to use some of the song's lyrics in your piece as well. So what does summer feel like for you?
By Gerald Holmes9 months ago in Poets
From There to Here
2013-07-29 Downtown Toronto: early evening. Thunder, rolling in the distance, mixed with the sound of sirens thirty floors below, drowns out the screaming a little. Those screams have been getting closer and closer over the last thirty minutes and I know it’s only a matter of time before my screams join this choir of pain.
By Gerald Holmes9 months ago in Fiction