Stories tagged “Cowardice”
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Yellow
A coward has it easy: they’re only really afraid of one thing … being afraid. Everyone else has many fears. Meira was constantly teased by her classmates. She jumped at the smallest things: little bugs, harmless snakes, birds taking wing, a...
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Friends/Lovers
He chain-smoked his Camels while he waited in the church parking lot. She came out and she was tall and brown, like always, and her face was peppered with freckles and intellect, and what could he do? He was leaning against her car door trying to look ...
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The Witness
Wardrums in the distance kept a steady beat. I don’t know whether its purpose was to unnerve us, or communication, but something was coming. I never heard anything else though I strained my ears, listening for the snap of a twig or the rustle of ...