Welcome to all of you with enthusiasm for the literary and the artistic. We have stories, we have poems, we have pictures, we used to have music reviews, and with your help, we're constantly adding more.

The site is updated with new material approximately once a month, the editor will now introduce the latest edition:

If you are worried about cookies or data privacy, don't use the rating buttons and you won't be involved. Apart from your choice of rating we do not not collect or store any other data so if you're happy with that we'd like you to rate the articles please! Google have their own policies so clicking on the search box will be logged by them.

 

Note: We are now on a new server.

Hopefully this should have all worked seamlessly... but if you find any broken links please tell me. The site is pretty big now so I can't check everything!

You should now have a little padlock symbol to the left of the URL in the address bar, if it hasn't changed click here https://winamop.com/

April 2025

Did you know that Easter is the first Christian festival, being over 1000 years old? No? Neither did I.

Take that, upstart Christmas!

Anyway, it's Easter and usually I would be cracking terrible puns involving eggs (see what I did there?) but I'm not going to do it this year..

To keep it seasonal we'll be featuring a some stories and poetry based on Easter or Lent which is good to see.

 

Michael Smith. There's a dance on at the base, all the locals are there as well as the uniforms. The band is playing all the usual stuff and from the stage they have a great view of what's going on in the hall. It's called 1-2-3.

 

Tony Warner is new to the site and here he brings us a portrait artist's dilemma under two starkly different regimes. Painting the President is the subject.

 

KJ Hannah Greenberg. This story concerns a very important being. He is known as Tito. All in his kingdom should be aware of his status.

 

Simon King looks in on the life of another notable figure from history. This time it's the ancient Greek sculptor, painter, and architect Phidias who was active in the 5th century BC (thanks Wikipedia, who needs A.I. when I can use Wiki?).

 

Terry Brinkman brings us, in his own words, "A very short story". It's seasonal - as it's about giving Alms in Lent. It's called simply Alms.

 

Frucht-Schleifen is here again with two very different tracks from his self composed and performed album "drei" which first saw the light of day in 2019. The titles are Southern Crossroads and Go With The Flow.

 

Claudia Wysocky has sent in a series of photographs taken in Manhatten, New York. These evocative black-and-white shots were mainly at the train station.

 

Terry Brinkman has a great new piece of art called Black Bear. It's on his art page along with all his other pictures too.

 

KJ Hannah Greenberg again brings us a collection of her photographic art. This time we're taking to various byways.

 

Diane Webster is back with another superb selection of poems. They are At Attention - Journey Tracks - Giggles Away - Summer Musings and Biding Time.

 

Richard LeDue returns with some poems on the theme of Easter. Decay No Less Natural Than The Rest - Another Sermon and A Fleeting Moment Still Has Hope.

 

Peter Mladinic is new to the site and introduces himself with these excellent poems: Gatherers - Mother and Playing Dead in Malta. More please!

 

Tony Dawson is back with a bumper collection of poems, some looking back to Roman times and some bang up to date! Julius Caesar Visits Britannia for the First Time - Julius Caesar Returns to Britannia - Shit Happens - New Bronze Plaque on the Pedestal of the Statue of Liberty and Long Live the King!.

 

KJ Hannah Greenberg returns with three new poems: Doxed - Janky Advice and At Day's End.

 

Terry Brinkman has just one poem for us this time but it's a good one. It's called Half A Laugh.

 

 

That's the full eggstent (sorry!) of our offering this month, do keep an eye out for more in about four weeks time.

If you feel you have something to contribute to the site - stories, poems art or music - please do so and together we'll keep Winamop going. The email button is at the bottom of this page.

I'm off to eat some over-packaged and over-priced chocolate.

Ed.

Something you missed? Catch up on previous editions by clicking this word. They are all there, right back to 2003.

Winamop was conceived on a whim, is run on a shoestring, ignored by the many, loved by the few and has continued unabashed since 2003.

All human life is here, experienced people, skilled writers and rank amateurs, sometimes they hit the mark, sometimes they belly-flop (sometimes they mix their metaphors). You pick up the pieces and make of them what you will. Find out about us here and about the site here.The contributor's guidelines are here and the e-mail button is below.

We hope to continue to maintain a showcase for new writing which will grow as you, dear readers, augment the efforts of the in-house team. We have over 800 unique pages so far but, quite frankly, we need more...

Have a good look around and if you feel that you'd like to contribute in any genre, then don't be shy, send it in! The copyright remains yours, and you could win a mop (unlikely, as I've run out).

Jump straight to a category using the buttons at the top of the page, they work from any page. Remember, it's all free and is made from 100% natural ingredients!

By the way, we use a cookie to record your page ratings, if you don't rate a page you won't get one!

Search Winamop

Winamop Search

 

Click Here