Stories tagged “determination”
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Fire Within: part 1
Sleep would not come this night. She sipped her fragrant tea, watching some last yellow flames flicker before guttering out. Her fire burned lower now - most of the blaze was long since gone. All night she had sat there, staring at the flames. As she s...
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Fire Within: part 2
She tried to re-compose herself, but it was impossible now; cold had penetrated to her core. She sat atop a bleak and desolate peak, and neither airs and graces nor steely determination could make a palace of it. She huddled closer to the rock at her b...
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Eye of The Dancer: Keep Your Eyes on The Prize
Have you ever wanted something with your whole heart? Have you ever lived for something with your whole soul? Have you ever focused on it with your whole mind? Have you ever striven for something with your whole strength? Have you ever loved God? Many ...
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Chambers
It was a warm summer night and the club was going boomps, boomps, boomps. Rainbow lights illuminated a sea of strange faces and glittered sequins. Xavier took a detour into the handicapped stall, bragging to a friend back home about how much better the...
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Plans on Paper
“But how do you know that. This isn’t a world where plans work like they do on paper Hannah,” my anger was starting to get a hold of me, yet her voice remained calm and emotionless. “That’s why I cover all instances. I knew th...
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Following His Heart
It sucked being sick. The thickness of the summer heat made it worse. Charlie would rather be shivering in his blankets, teeth chattering, than feel like a bloated toad, sweating and miserable. A cough tore out of him and turned into a half a dozen mor...
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Word Zombie
He was a man reborn. Resurrected, in fact, by the powers of creation. The energy filled him and controlled him. His words danced the way eddies swirl in streams; took chances the way motivational speakers pursue dreams. He was once again the conduit fo...