What Is a Home?

By Fareshta Amiri
Fareshta Amiri's stories

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You’ve entered a polity of literature: We’re here to support your writing. The eight Reader/Advisor/Editors (RAEs) at The GOAT PoL work on eighty to a hundred stories at any given time, and each one is unique. Writing is a slow unpredictable process—the process that we support is ambitious. It’s hard work and it will take time.

 

Writing pays terribly. It takes so long! Writers at The GOAT PoL might get just pennies-per-hour by the time they’re done. You’ll earn more working for the Amazon MechanicalTurk (AMT). Don’t expect fast money.

 

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A note on artificial intelligence (AI): AI can be useful, but it cannot write an interesting story alone. You are a much more interesting writer than AI. If you use AI, tell your RAE about it. Please don’t send us boring stories written only by AI. Send us your writing, and tell your RAE how you made it.

 

 

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What is a home?
This is our base, our favorite place
Our beginning and end to each day
This is our space. Each corner is laced
It’s our triumph and glory that these walls tell stories
We talk, we laugh
This is our family loving
A home can be big or small
Near or far
Distance doesn’t matter
Wherever we are
Our shelter, our happiness
When I lay wide awake in my own bed
I see the stars in the sky
by drawing my dreams
I follow my wishes to reach my stars
and never forget
How art brings us joy
A home can be where we’re safe
A place where we relax
A home can share joy, peace and light
With Family, friends and dear ones
It’s brick and wood
It’s made of great blocks of stone
1 kitchen, 2 bedrooms
Appropriate for our family
I see my family keeping each other strong
It gives me energy when I look at them
Calmness calls me, Comfort invites me
when Loneliness leaves me
I am not hidden, I am free to fly
Not to go far
I am here to describe

 

 

 

22 February, 2023