Stories tagged “drown”
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Last Unanswered Question
I took a deep breath, and plunged my head under. The cool water was soothing, the green-brown a safety net. I looked for myself. Where was I? Images flashed into my brain. It was like my heart didn’t want me to forget. My mother smiling, my siste...
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And I Saw the Ocean
I drowned on August fifteenth of the year 2006. The sun glinted off of the pellucid water; it created a web of turquoise and white around me, struck me dumb with its brilliance. A cloud of fine ivory sand followed my wake whenever I moved. I was sure t...
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Papers: The Girl Who's Always Been There
The first thing I see when I enter my office is papers. Everywhere. And, coming from somewhere in the room, my co-worker’s drowned scream. Drowned in paper.
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Papers: The New Girl
I hear the sound of the door opening, and I feel like the sky’s opening, although I wouldn’t see it anyways. But my desperate pleas for help are drowned. Who would think I’d die drowned in papers.
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Papers: What the Camera Saw
A woman enters what seems to be her office and sees papers everywhere. Before even thinking of getting angry, she hears her co-worker’s screams under them.
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Paper Weight
It’s strange. For a moment it felt like I was standing outside my body. Like I was me, and her, and some sort of neutral observer at the same time. Maybe it was just a literary device. “What happened?” I waded into the mess of paper, ...
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Thoughts - They Drown (Part 1)
So close, yet so far – Always wishing on that star. Always up, never down - Yet I feel as though I’ll drown. My lovely exterior may seem placid - But my mind is seething with pure acid. Consuming, rusty thoughts indeed - Cuts my heart R...
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Thoughts - They Drown (Part 2)
Pains, heartache – Can’t change the past - This counterfeit happiness just won’t last. Spinning in circles, making me nauseous - Not letting you hold me – I need to be cautious. I try to run, as fast as light - They close in fas...
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Floating In The Local Pool
I promised myself that this summer wouldn’t suck. I had no job this year, and my best friend, Justin, made me promise that we’d have fun this summer—real fun. So when he told me that it would be a good idea to sneak into the neighborh...
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House Boat
The jingle sounds off from the little speaker on the phone. Flash of red on the screen. It takes forever. Pete is in a daze, the shard of glass in his leg keeping him somewhere between conscious and comatose. There’s a sloshing noise, massive. Wa...
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Belie
This is pain as well, but it’s sharp, vivid; a momentary relief. Everything else fades to a buzz in the back of my head as I deal with the coppery tang, the wet slickness. I know, like I know this isn’t helping, (that nothing helps,) that t...
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Come Here Often?
I awoke in darkness, with no idea of how much time had passed. Hazy memories served to give me an idea of where I was, along with the scents of cheap pine and wet earth. Joe had awakened at the morgue. How had I earned a coffin? More importantly, how w...