Stories tagged “bitter”
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Silent Eye
People think I’m indifferent. That I’m faceless, and therefore unprejudiced. But this isn’t true. Just because you see only your pretty little face in me doesn’t mean I don’t see it too. And I judge you by every stain you&...
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The Taste of Your Words
My dearest love, Please know that I deeply regret the pain that this note will cause. The bitter truth is that I have not been entirely honest with you and, sadly, I find the prospect of correcting that unpalatable. I never told you that when I was you...
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a simple touch
if not for your touch i’d melt away i would let the hours blur into days i would have no memories of things so soft and sweet i would just be full of things all bitter and mean
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Apart
After a while it gets to you. The happy shift of a friend’s eyes down to the ground when asked about her Significant Other how she’ll blush and shrug and smile a private smile spew something generic, like “I’ve never felt this w...
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The Bitter Side of Sweetness
I looked around the small suite of rooms, the bitter taste of envy sharp on my tongue. Tired, so tired of Reese. She wasn’t anything so spectacular, but she was the honey of popular opinion and it didn’t matter that she had no substance. She wa...
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A Teetering Pedestal
The day I’d been dying for was here. I’d dreamed of it and tried to imagine what it would be like. I’d even tried bargaining with God for it. I was on a date with the girl of my dreams. The text I’ve been thinking about you and ...
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Tiny Janitor, Big Mess
Thank God she’s gone, and that she took that stupid mutt with her. The crowd was finally starting to disperse as folks wandered back to their homes. They sure trampled the flowers something terrible, but Wendel wasn’t the gardener, so he di...
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World Serpent
I Sleep. Waiting. Under the ocean. Old and scarred and bitter, coiled in the deep and sunless dark. axe-age, sword-age, shields are cleft asunder, wind-age, wolf-age, before the world plunges headlong; no man will spare another Until the day the sky tu...