Stories tagged “Eye”
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The Creative Eye
Trying to turn this whiteness into colour The ideas don’t come the blankness just stares at me Laughing at my frail attempts to cover it up My brush skims the surface time and time again The marks do not make any sense They confuse and annoy me Ther...
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Ear What She Nose
She nose But she doesn’t ear, I suppose, With one eye open clear The other frozen closed By the cold upon her tear.
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Wandering Eyes
A stare is aloft, Soft like the air, In silence it walks Atop who talks To me— those who care, Who have my ear, But not my eyes— They wander to where I’d rather sit If I could only fit In over there.
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Ashes Remain: Prologue Part 1
I looked up, waking from a daze. My cold, pale fingers shook as they held a small black-and-white photo. It was of a small girl, maybe 16-years in age, cuddling a black kitten in her slender arms. He face was scrubby, her clothes looked like they had n...
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Ashes Ramain: Chapter One;; Part 3
Not twenty minutes later, there was a polite knock on my cubicle wall. My back went straight as I ground my stubby nails into my desk. Could I go a single moment without being interrupted!? Turning my cold blue eyes away from my computer, I met my curr...
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Aim by Prayer
Gut check time, Denton thought to himself, Man up. bear down. Cowboy up. Time for the big boy pants. With a deep breath he took stock of his motivational phrases; that was indeed the extent of ones he knew and felt were applicable at that moment. Based...
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Goodbye.
What made you think I’d be okay? Was it the shake in my lip, the look in my eye, Or the way I couldn’t stand to say Goodbye?
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Gazing into the Abyss
I was curled up with a book, enjoying the buzz from my last glass of wine for the evening when I heard a sound that I could only describe as wet movement, like a barefoot child walking deliberately through a muddy field. I dog-eared the page I was on a...