Stories tagged “candles”
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Fantasyland V
“Planning a revolution shoudn’t be this hard,” the cloaked man sighed from the head of the table. Henry decided, due to normal seating convention that person was the leader of this rabble and his name was Supreme Leader, or Steve. &#...
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99
I never should have lived this long. I mean, really, 99 years? Everyone I grew up with is dead. Even my children hadn’t lived this long. And here are all my grandchildren and great-grandchildren singing “happy birthday” as if there is...
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Seventeen Small Candles
Seventeen small candles were all she saw. Teetering delicately on the solid wooden table, their cylindrical forms dared passers-by to play. Go on. Nudge me. As she made her way towards the back door of the kitchen, she heard a dog barking outside. In t...
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Wax
Even if she could have smiled through the cracked, scarred skin on her face, she wouldn’t have when she sat down with her family for dinner that first evening back home. There was a silence hanging over the table that she expected. Two years ago,...
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Ashes Remain: Prologue Part 2
Quivering digits turned the pale photograph over, my crystal orbs studying it’s backside. A short sigh of breath escaped as I turned the picture over once again. I stood, my gray suit jacket rustling against the wooden chair that I had just sat o...