Stories tagged “destiny”
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Rise and Fall
I watch your chest rise and fall ever so slowly as you lie next to me. I think of the time we’ve spent together, of the joys we’ve shared. How did I ever find you? How did I ever make you mine? Was it fate? Was this predestined? Does ...
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Souls of Rainbows
I don’t believe that everything happens for a reason. I don’t believe in fate, I don’t believe in destiny. I don’t believe that things are planned out in advance, and I don’t believe that we’re in control of anything...
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Singled out from the pack
Indistinguishable from the others, today he had finally been chosen. Whether by random or otherwise, his destiny would be fulfilled. Approaching that singular document that would fulfil his purpose, he felt a pang of almost regret. Having seen so many ...
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The Search
I’m looking for you But you can’t find me I want to be with you You don’t know who I am That fleeting shadow That breeze in your window That voice you hear when no one is around Those eyes that watch you Those arms that hold you And n...
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On a Ledge
I stood on a ledge the other day. I wanted to look down. I wanted to feel how high I was, because I was feeling so low everywhere else. I wanted my heartbeat to rise because of a fear of falling. I wanted to feel something other than despair. I wanted ...
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Hidden Arrival
Samuel had seen the asteroid come flying in overhead, heard the cattle lowing wildly as as it burned brightly through the night sky. He’d watched it seem to slow and drop into the desert scrub beyond. Saddling up his horse, he cantered out across...
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My Destiny
From the time I was born, I was told I was special. I was told I had a purpose, a destiny to fulfill. My mother made sure I understood that I was like no other. I used to brush this off, thinking she was crazy. She was after all a schizo, claiming to s...
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Drawing the line
Out there, in our world of office buildings, of cubicles, of day after day after day repeating a meaningless task, we can lose our focus-our reason for being. We feel like cogs in a giant wheel, working towards an end that seems blurry and faint, for a...
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Norman's Wisdom
Some people are born with their destiny laid out before them. Others forge their own destiny. But most have no destiny at all. They exist only to provide background color for the people who will go on to do the bigger, better things. It’s not their f...
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Recurring Dream
Touches of Collective skin (Such is love)— Water rushes Large and luscious Light and slim In between my dim Conscious, Heaven, seven phases of Venus, And all of my responses There develops a recurring dream Of a torrential storm Blurring my un...
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Fifty Bucks Worth of Confidence
The gun was small, denser than it looked, and felt as if it carried the weight of the world inside it. “How much?” Jenny asked despite herself. She wasn’t even into guns . “For you? Gimme fifty and we’ll call it square....
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Family Traditions
Trevor didn’t sleep, but staring at the ceiling, he still dreamed. Visions of a wondrous circus he’d never seen before filled his head. Under an immense purple and gold tent, he saw a sweaty woman with a thick curly beard, acrobats as delic...
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She Waits
His chest moves With the rise and fall Of empires As she sits in wait For his awakening. With virgin obedience She waits As the white of her bridal garb fades. Eons pass as he slumbers In his earthly tomb. She waits Never closing his view From her sigh...
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The Prince's Problem
~ Is a couple in the slums worthy of more admiration than a prince? …They having become Lord & Lady before he even acknowledges that he’s alone. ~ “My journey hasn’t been long but it’s taken me far from my kingdom. I b...