Stories tagged “bliss”
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Paint the Sky
Slow-motion Colors Lovers Let’s go be lovers, in a foreign country. Let’s forget that we ever had expectations, or obligations. Let’s be irresponsible and irrational, let’s forget about things like correct spelling and presentab...
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Awakening
Dark clouds rumbled above me as lightning struck the sides of the cliffs, boulders crashed towards me. Ignoring everything I ran down the desolate canyon, this was all too familiar now, the only true terror left here was the thing that I knew was chasi...
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I Believe
I believe in rainy days that soak in deep to nourish at the root I believe in rainbows of paper butterflies swaying above my head in childish glee I believe in ice cream sundaes that melt fast in the sun leaving sticky puddles of joy I believe in harmo...
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Perfect Night for Cocoa
We had trekked around to the other side of a huge lake. Our gear was on our backs and our SUV was locked and parked far away. “Are you sure this side of the lake is the best?” I panted to my boyfriend of two years, who is an avid outdoorsma...
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American Summer
Inside the house with the AC blasting and the neighborhood kids calling to each other from outside, though the screens on the windows, I felt it. A Summer weekend, like a dream. A season of endless bliss that the kids anticipate during the days from Se...
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Oasis of Bliss
Life, for me, was like running as fast and as far as I could. Once I couldn’t run any longer I turned around and walked home. And when I laid in bed I was dead— Then ascended From where my life had ended To a place I never comprehended Could exis...
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Perhaps some things should be left just as they are.
And I remember quiet evenings trembling close to you… It was still the greatest ever finishing line for a song. Ever. From the moment he’d heard Tom’s beautiful illuminations illustrating to him such a powerfully touching story, he ha...