Stories tagged “choice”
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The Final Soul
“No one would ever expect to find it in a plain old jar. Seriously, look at it. There used to be strawberry Smuckers in it. It’s perfect.” He couldn’t believe the suggestion. There was absolutely no way that he was about to stor...
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Further (a villanelle)
Wondering quietly how far I should go and how many signposts are there on the way, I feel for the map of my heart and I know its more crumpled edges are tearing, and so I tuck it inside and greet a new day, (still) wondering quietly how far I should g...
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Who Will He Choose?
“We will let him pick who he loves most. But whoever he doesn’t pick, must not continue to go after him. OK?” Sae said. “OK,” Inu replied. But how could he pick who he loved the most right on the spot? Who should he choose...
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Journal Entry 6-Apr-2010
I’m not entirely sure what to think about last night. So, last night while I’m trying to get to sleep, this really tall elf thing steps out of my closet. My closet is full of stuff, and this guy was something like 7 feet tall, but he just s...
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Final Decision
One of us had to die. So it was her, then me.
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Choice
Sitting on the beach, arms stretched out behind me for support, fingers squished in the sand as I stare out at the rolling waves and crashing ice-caps. The day is slowly becoming cloudy. I am alone. I stand up, uncertain, and gradually wander away from...
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Hard Choices in a Hard World
Rae’s eyes darted between the kids gathering at the buses and the now vacant school yard. On the far side of the yard lay the drainage ditch, trash-strewn path to freedom. Even through the metallic tang of her mech voice the hesitancy came throug...
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I Eat Meat.
And I haven’t really questioned that. Don’t get me wrong- I like meat. I knew that animals have to die in order for me to eat meat. And I didn’t think twice. Not until recently. Whatever I am, I am not yet a vegetarian. I eat meat jus...
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The Will to Live
I started to turn my head. “I wouldn’t.” The voice sounded seductive and playful. And very clearly female. I felt a stab of anger at that, as if it somehow amplified my husband’s betrayal. “It is difficult to find a bloodl...
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Laughing Eyes
My vision swam strangely. I looked up at the sky; it was a vivid dark purple… like looking at a photo taken at night that had been overexposed. It was night again. I must have slept through the day. “I do it often enough,” she said. S...
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Fear and Choices
With a flick, the shovel handle flew into the sky. Gracefully she leaped backwards and up, smiling all the while. All I could do was shimmy the rest of the way out of the coffin. “You chose.” Her words were as cold as I was assuming the air...
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Faith
“This isn’t fair! A choice between… this… and death is no choice at all!” I screamed at her. “If you didn’t want this, your body would have rejected the change,” she replied. “Yeah, and rapists tell...
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The Price
“Lorelei!” called a man at the end of the room. So, I finally had a name for the woman who’d taken everything from me. An odd name, but then again, who knew when or where she’d been born. “Yes, Jack?” Lorelei called ...
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Breaking free.
I stand here, looking down from the bridge to the swirling dark waters below and wonder, what did I do wrong? What did I do that made life unbearable, friends distant, family estranged, or work seem more of a punishment than a vocation, and my boss Jef...
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Choice of Heart
Brad watched It light a cigarette with the ground. “Why am I here?” Brad asked. It raised what might have been an eyebrow. “Isn’t that obvious? You didn’t—” “I was a good person.” Brad interrupted. ...
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Repayment
A bed of Shimeji mushrooms was a perfect place to rest at the end of the day. The tops rolled like clouds across the ground, a nap here could melt anybody’s troubles away. But here I came, came running, and I squeezed down between the stalks befo...