Coffee House Writers

Main Menu

  • Home
  • Article Categories
    • Fiction
      • Action & Adventure
      • Fantasy
      • Historical Fiction
      • Horror
      • Mystery
      • Romance
      • Science Fiction
      • Speculative Fiction
      • Suspense & Thrillers
      • Westerns
      • Women’s Fiction
      • Women Sleuths
    • Nonfiction
      • Astrology & Tarot
      • Biographies
      • Business
      • Creativity
      • Creative Nonfiction
      • Cooking, Food & Drink
      • Culture
      • Current Affairs & Politics
      • Design, Fashion & Style
      • Entertainment
      • Environment
      • Health & Wellness
      • History
      • Home & Garden
      • Lifestyle
      • Media
      • Memoir & Autobiographies
      • Paranormal
      • Parenting & Family
      • Reviews
      • Science & Technology
      • Self-Help & Relationships
      • Spiritual & Religious
      • Sports
      • Travel
      • True Crime
    • Poetry
      • Acrostic
  • About Us
    • Our Story
    • Our Founder
  • Meet Our Admin
    • Chief Editors
    • Editors
  • Testimonials
  • Apply
  • Login

logo

Coffee House Writers

  • Home
  • Article Categories
    • Fiction
      • Action & Adventure
      • Fantasy
      • Historical Fiction
      • Horror
      • Mystery
      • Romance
      • Science Fiction
      • Speculative Fiction
      • Suspense & Thrillers
      • Westerns
      • Women’s Fiction
      • Women Sleuths
    • Nonfiction
      • Astrology & Tarot
      • Biographies
      • Business
      • Creativity
      • Creative Nonfiction
      • Cooking, Food & Drink
      • Culture
      • Current Affairs & Politics
      • Design, Fashion & Style
      • Entertainment
      • Environment
      • Health & Wellness
      • History
      • Home & Garden
      • Lifestyle
      • Media
      • Memoir & Autobiographies
      • Paranormal
      • Parenting & Family
      • Reviews
      • Science & Technology
      • Self-Help & Relationships
      • Spiritual & Religious
      • Sports
      • Travel
      • True Crime
    • Poetry
      • Acrostic
  • About Us
    • Our Story
    • Our Founder
  • Meet Our Admin
    • Chief Editors
    • Editors
  • Testimonials
  • Apply
  • Login
  • Under Pressure

  • Self Immolation

  • A Plea

  • A Question

  • Psalm of Praise

  • Of Lockets and Pomegranates: Chapter 31

  • I Keep Driving

  • My Little Star

  • The Island

  • A Bird of the Sun

  • Loxirus Special

  • Crossroads

  • Neptune’s Fortune: Part 10

  • A Girl and Her Horse

  • Living the Dream

  • Of Lockets and Pomegranates: Chapter 30

  • Don’t Worry, Home is Anywhere

  • Fish Heads

  • Grief, Hope, and Parker

  • For Mom

Author: Shannon Richards

Home›Author: Shannon Richards (Page 4)
  • The surface of the moon looms in the lower right quadrant, dominated by two large craters and pockmarked by many smaller ones
    FictionScience Fiction

    New Ride

    By Shannon Richards
    May 13, 2024
    I pull the lever as the whistle blows, and the press comes down. Low gravity makes the seal on the components produced on the ...
    Read More
  • An image of a total solar eclipse with the corona flaring brightly
    Poetry

    Eclipse

    By Shannon Richards
    April 29, 2024
    Ever reducing crescents Carved by a shadow of curiosity As we drift into the penumbra Unaccustomed to the luminosity, The brightly glowing ring, Feather ...
    Read More
  • An abstract sculpture in white of portions of two faces in a romantic pose. A frontal view of the closed right eye, nose, lips, chin, and left cheek surrounded by a swoop suggesting the shape of hair is being embraced by a face in profile whose hand can be seen wrapping around the missing right cheek. A kiss seems imminent.
    PoetryRomance

    Will

    By Shannon Richards
    April 15, 2024
    You draw my will out Through my skin. It sits, Dewy opals, On the curves of my neck Until you scoop it away With ...
    Read More
  • Snow begins to accumulate on a withering pink rose left to wilt on the bush.
    Poetry

    Seeds of Doubt

    By Shannon Richards
    April 1, 2024
    Doubt starts to grow when the first wind blows through Time occupies the dark plane all alone Left with the thought that there’s nothing ...
    Read More
  • Seen from underneath, a row of light brown mushrooms grows out of the side of a tree trunk covered with moss even as it stretches into the sky.
    TrioletPoetry

    Cycle of Rebirth

    By Shannon Richards
    March 18, 2024
    Spring forth in the eternal cycle of rebirth The spinning Wheel turns as it passes on its way. Feel the heart-beat rhythm of the ...
    Read More
  • Long serpentine tails covered in metallic rainbow scales curve around and end in triangular flanges.
    PoetryFantasy

    Dragons Have Arrived

    By Shannon Richards
    March 4, 2024
    I think you’re a dreamer like me, And dragons fly thick through the air. Come inside; I’ve prepared safety Or they’ll drag you off ...
    Read More
  • A selection of Tarot cards fading from the Tower, Hierophant, and Six of Swords on the left, the Wheel of Fortune in the center, and the Ten of Cups, Lovers, and the World on the right.
    SestinaPoetry

    Ten of Cups

    By Shannon Richards
    February 19, 2024
    I thought I had the Ten of Cups And wouldn’t be alone, I read a family in my cards Together we’d build a world ...
    Read More
  • A red heart, drawn by a sparkler, briefly crackles against the dark
    Poetry

    Saw That One Coming

    By Shannon Richards
    February 5, 2024
    I saw the heartbreak coming from a mile away. Starting with the breathless Wow Of that long-desired first kiss Our time was ticking down, ...
    Read More
  • A pair of red leather high-heeled pumps
    Parenting & FamilyPoetryMemoir & Autobiographies

    My Mother’s Strength

    By Shannon Richards
    January 22, 2024
    My mother taught me strength. The way she sauntered into university boardrooms Wearing spiked heels she carried to the car Because it was still ...
    Read More
  • The constellation Orion hangs in the darkening sky over snow-covered pine trees.
    CreativityParenting & FamilyPoetry

    Yule Celebration

    By Shannon Richards
    December 25, 2023
    The hunter, Orion, crosses the sky On this, the deepest, dark night of the year, The sharp winds blow and the snow’s first flakes ...
    Read More
1 2 3 4 5
  • Recent

  • Popular

  • An assortment of gauges displayed on a wall

    Under Pressure

    By Kristina Snyder
    October 19, 2026
  • a hand reaching out of a blue, hazy background holding a lit lighter

    Self Immolation

    By Erynn Crittenden
    October 19, 2026
  • Light shining through a circular window into a dark room.

    A Plea

    By Rockebah C. Stewart
    October 19, 2026
  • Image of footprints in the sand along Popham Beach, Maine

    A Question

    By Lexi
    October 19, 2026
  • A woman crying in a train compartment car

    Psalm of Praise

    By Scarlett Faye
    October 19, 2026
  • photos

    Going For A Stroll

    By Ivor Steven
    July 26, 2021
  • Somewhere in Limbo

    In This Limbo

    By Ivor Steven
    August 23, 2021
  • The strong undertows at Barwon Heads

    Strong Undertows

    By Ivor Steven
    December 27, 2021
  • Rain on glass with a gradient of light behind.

    A New Melody

    By Andrew Wilson
    July 21, 2025
  • Pebbles

    Pebbles Fade Into Dust 

    By Ivor Steven
    September 6, 2021

About us

  • coffeehousewriters3@gmail.com

Donate to Coffee House Writers

Coindrop.to me

Follow us

© Copyright 2018-2026 Coffee House Writers. All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s administrator and owner is strictly prohibited. Privacy Policy · Disclaimer