Stories tagged “Reincarnation”
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Captain Jack's Haiku
I speak as I die The first of many deaths, for I will always come back
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Bright Light
What’s that? A face. My…mother’s? I reach out my tiny hands, is she real? I’m taking my first steps. Shaky legs, bent to fall forward and crawl, but no, that’s not how everyone else gets around. Tricycle, my hands grip the...
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Come as you were
The Misktonic University ‘Come as you were’ reincarnation-club dance had been going very well indeed. There were three Cleopatras present, but they had conferred in one of the girl’s bathrooms and come out and announced that they were...
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A New Beginning
As his car zoomed off the side of the bridge, engine revving, he closed his eyes. He enjoyed the feeling of falling, imagining he was a bird soaring to freedom. His car had tilted forward after careening off the bridge, so when he hit the water, his bo...
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Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
In the white hot incandescence of anger, your thing we call soul like moth to streetlight, away from death hanging on to that lashing frail thread of vengeance’s lust, back, back, back, your life unspooling to a connate snap where a white cold glare ...
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And Here You Go, Again
Round round round the merry-go-round you go, so many times the wet warm splashing to a halt with a connate slap in cold fluorescent glare and laughter at baby you boiling with pure pissed off and you grow up kicking at dogs and breaking windows, become...
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Wheel Turning 'Round Part 4
Every cell dispersed into effulgence. The coruscating white light darkled to red, then a mollified pink. A pulsation of animus ebbed and flowed rhythmically, a susurration echoing throughout. Sometimes fast sometimes slower. Time did not exist in the f...
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A tale of a common reincarnation and a cat
[Once upon a time, two people loved each other. And with death came separation, but in another life…] . The yellow-and-orange tabby took an instant liking to the new professor who had inconspicuously (or so she thought) left a small can of fish o...
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A tale of a passing reincarnation and a train
[Once upon a time, two people loved each other. And with death came separation, but in another life…] . As another train rushed by in the opposite direction, the girl peeked open her left eye and caught a flash of the brightest shade of yellow sh...
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A tale of a French reincarnation and a rose
[Once upon a time, two people loved each other. And with death came separation, but in another life…] . The intentionally unrespectable Englishman found himself waylaid in the middle of a street in Italy by a sharp-dressed young man who, with a grand...
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A tale of a crushed reincarnation and a meeting
The young journalist doesn’t understand why his hands shake as he tries to write the ultra-urgent article, about the boy made sure all his classmates got out alive after their teacher ran off the moment the earthquake started – but died one...