Stories tagged “eternity”
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Now and Forever
The apartment was dark and musty; the fingers of sunlight had not brushed the living room in days. The whole building was buzzing with the news. Everyone three floors above and below had heard the fight – the screams, the insults, the words. She ...
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A Piece of Peace
Warm breezes softly push me along the invisible path I am traveling. I look side to side and see billowing clouds floating carelessly with no direction. It is a blissfully peaceful space. The noiseless atmosphere goes on for eternity. Then it starts to...
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Forever and Ever and Ever
All alone I stand in state And I A world traveler Will wonder why The world falls To ash Burning meteors collide With me And split my molecules And then I see My mortal paradigm Collapse Metanarratives mundane All fail To answer inquiries And feel stal...
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The Rise before the Fall.
There were so many lights. They burned bright within his mind, illuminating every dark and hidden memory. He had called himself Elliot, but Elliot was merely a shadow cast by one of the lights. Elliot was a place to hide- from his pursuers and himself....
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Anger Be Now Your Song
My grip tightened on the arms of my chair. If I didn’t vent soon, my fury would consume me, but only mentally. Unfortunately, I cannot die. My name is Abranis. I regret my decision to accept immortality on Earth. I took the coward’s way of ...
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Forever in a Day
Even as I paid the Ferris wheel operator for the $1 ride, and tugged my petrified 6-year-old son to a seat, I knew my frail body was running out of time. “Will it end soon, Mommy?” The ride lurched and fear flitted across his face, a fear s...
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Pause
Darkness clings Ripples in a pond Cattails waving in the soft summer breeze Green eyes of water, watching, perched on lilypad The silence between heartbeats Silver staircase open wide Eternity here, Waiting…
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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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cosmophidian
With an infinitely increasing mass, its scales are fractal mandalas, shoals upon shoals of realities in themselves. It expands through Time, an array of itself lined up in a game of scale. This great worm dreams us all even as we awaken soaked in sweat...
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Living
It’s better than dying. During my blue period, when the first protean delights of immortality had passed, and I was left with the prospect of undying boredom. Artistically, I mastered painting, sculpture, and drama. Athletically, under the guise ...
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The Grinning Chiaroscuro
A stranger approaches you one night. Perhaps you are alone under the only lighted lamp in a shadowy streetcorner, or it is an empty bus you ride, sullen in your seat and feeling the late hour. The stranger approaches you with bead black eyes and a voic...
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Anonymous
My heart and home My Hearth and hope Beauty unending Soul unbending Love so great Our hearts create Heart on fire Insatiable desire Soul at peace like calm at sea Pulling together Simply forever
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Choice of Heart
Brad watched It light a cigarette with the ground. “Why am I here?” Brad asked. It raised what might have been an eyebrow. “Isn’t that obvious? You didn’t—” “I was a good person.” Brad interrupted. ...
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Immortals
The club was dark and sweaty. The band, a two piece, voice and keyboards, were pumping out an industrial volume rhythm to which the crowd were berserking on the dance floor. I saw her eyes first, they sparkled like diamonds against black satin. She bec...