Stories tagged “dawn”
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Dawn and Dusk
Auroro knew that to leave the Sky Palace was to leave immortality, but Clay Woman on the Worlds Below beckoned until he could no longer resist her call. His feet on the earth, he walked with her for miles, marveling at flickering fires, the hot blood o...
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Hypothetical Dawn
In fact, Julie had never so much as looked in Joe’s direction. Dawn, on the other hand, followed him around like an excited puppy. The trainer, an overweight woman named Kristy, was as sarcastic as she was large. She waited for the room to quiet ...
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The Guy Before
Joe had a swagger in his step. It seemed his luck was changing for the better. All his life he had been the guy before. As in, isn’t that the guy Tiffany used to hang out with before she got engaged to Matt? Or, isn’t that the guy Alyssa da...
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Dawn Sat Alone
Dawn sat alone at her new cubicle, wondering what the hell had just happened. She came to work and sat at her cubicle just like any other day. Unlike any other day, her supervisor Valerie walked over looking like she’d just wrestled with the reap...
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The Morning After
Leaning over the pier she stared out at the morning dawn over the Pacific Ocean. He walked up quietly behind her holding two coffees. “No sugar right?” She turns around, “Yeah thanks,” she smiled as she grabbed the warm cup and ...
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Once upon a danger
Deeply sleeping, never waking before the dawn, he looked up and saw the faun. Sunlight poked through the clouds, groggily he heard the baying of the hounds. Yawning awake, a shook was all it would take, to shed the sleep like so much dust. On his feet ...
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Seems To Be Circular To Me
D elicate A fterlives W elcome the N ewly restored womb. B looming R ecycled I nstances G rowing forth from the H orizon’s distances, T ime towers, E nveloping N aturally like the S easons are slowly sloping. D aunting U niverse— S uch a...
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Dawn
The screaming had stopped at last. The Land Before the Forest was nothing but a black skeleton of charred, wooden bones still smoking in the pre-dawn half light. You took my husband. You took my soul. You took my innocence. Now, you will take nothing f...
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Like A Tractor Beam
Joe unplugged his headset and walked outside to smoke a cigarette. Once he was outside of Julie’s spell, he remembered that he hadn’t seen Dawn all day. He took a drag of his cigarette and pulled out his i-phone. The call went straight to v...
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Dawn
I insert my earbuds and sit down to watch. Legs dangling over the rooftop, Nuvole Bianche whispering through my earbuds, and a beautiful sunrise approaching the horizon in front of me. Birds are singing, people are just starting to wake up, and soft br...