Gabriel Huizenga

Joined November 2022

123 stories

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Twas for love of words that I first joined this site:

Poetry, especially, and dear short stories too;

For to live one's best is to read, and to write!

So find me in words here, and I'll find you 💙

Thanks for stopping by! :)

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The Man With the Keys
Emani peered through the keyhole of the apartment. The tall, hard-faced man who had knocked on the door a few seconds before now stood further down the hall, tapping his foot frenetically. His dark suit was clean and tight. It looked new and expensive, to Emani - but she wasn't really sure. At any rate, she thought that the man didn't much fit in these surroundings.
By Gabriel Huizenga4 months ago in Fiction
Quarry II. Honorable Mention in Poetry of the Hunt Challenge. Top Story - November 2025.
In the motion of it all The pieces of who I am all jitter, and shift hands - eyes - lips - mind - purpose all nervous, unstable,
By Gabriel Huizenga4 months ago in Poets
Quarry
what do I endeavor to find; what is my long-sought grail? it is but this: I hunt for a hunt pressing through ceaseless gale.
By Gabriel Huizenga4 months ago in Poets
I Stole Away
to the unnamed place, I stole away, just 'til you almost forgot me.
By Gabriel Huizenga4 months ago in Poets
We Haunt The Dark
Dark, in turn, fears us; With noxious lights we haunt, burn Night itself away.
By Gabriel Huizenga4 months ago in Poets
Hear, Here
Hear, here, chilling truth: the darkest tales ever heard sprang from human minds.
By Gabriel Huizenga4 months ago in Poets
What Remains
*the following missive was discovered in Yorkshire, 1935, etched upon the inside of an unmarked coffin.* * * * To whatever lost soul finds these words:
By Gabriel Huizenga5 months ago in Fiction
One Little Lantern. Top Story - October 2025.
There stands one little lantern in every child's chest, whose glow is caught a-flickering in their upturned gaze; Right words will stoke that lamp-light, to endure race and rest,
By Gabriel Huizenga5 months ago in Poets
Against A Navy Sky. Honorable Mention in Lantern Light Challenge.
Place me again in the backseat, which lilted like a song; Through squinted lashes, nothing, those nights, was wrong. Face me, nine or ten, towards a blinking stoplight, near,
By Gabriel Huizenga5 months ago in Poets
Such are the Blue Climes. Winner in The Sonnet of Shadows Challenge.
Poetry speak of the wind in the trees And sings on of earth's sublime, steady breath, And bells in the soul a-tolled by that breeze -
By Gabriel Huizenga5 months ago in Poets
a kind of sowing time
all life's an autumn seeds and seconds fall, dying for hope of harvest
By Gabriel Huizenga5 months ago in Poets
Farther Along
as the last red leaves, these evil days shall away, a weak'ning shadow
By Gabriel Huizenga5 months ago in Poets