Stories tagged “discipline”
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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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The Truth of Our Assumptions
“Is he misbehaving again? Let me talk to him.” A man in the next booth over spoke loudly into his cell phone. I looked at him surreptitiously. He was ropy and disreputable looking- dirty jean jacket, stubble, and hard eyes. “What̵...