Anthony Ward has been writing in his spare time for a number of years. He has been published in a number of literary magazines including South, Word Gumbo, Perspectives, Crack the Spine, Shadow Fiction, Message in a Bottle, Snakeskin, Shot Glass Journal, and Blinking Cursor amongst others.

Anthony Ward

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Inanimate

Did you see the scream in her silence?
It looked so loud you could hear it in her eyes;
That contained explosion
That brought about the expulsion of her life,
While she withered away like a flower,
Dying from the inside
Before anyone noticed.