Stories tagged “flames”
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Alexi
Alexi sat against the base of a tree, twirling blue-white flames around her bare arms, attempting to get in as much practice as possible before she next performed. The woman didn’t look old at all; she looked hardly past twenty. Her sapphire eyes...
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One Question
You’re a fire. You burn me. Over and over. Never realizing how severe the pain is. I just want to scream at you. But you’ll play the victim. You’ll make me out to be Satan, even though you started this hell. I can’t get away fro...
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Burned at the Stake
Emily had never done anything outrageously wrong in her entire life. She had never called anyone a bad name or stolen anything, never even lied. Then why must she be tormented? Why did Ann do this to her? How can you hate a girl that does no wrong? Was...
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Everything That You Don't See
It burns to feel things I wish it would stop I love you, it burns I hate you, it burns I’m angry, yet it’s still burning The fire is out of control It all hurts endlessly My words, they all come out senselessly And as always I bear the pain...
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The Taste of Freedom
The study was dark, lit only by the fireball that was once the garden shed. The silence, when compared to the sounds of flame, explosions and death, was eerie. The sounds of more distant flames, shrieks of zeds and the newly falling rain seemed like ba...
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Wax
Even if she could have smiled through the cracked, scarred skin on her face, she wouldn’t have when she sat down with her family for dinner that first evening back home. There was a silence hanging over the table that she expected. Two years ago,...
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Dawn
The screaming had stopped at last. The Land Before the Forest was nothing but a black skeleton of charred, wooden bones still smoking in the pre-dawn half light. You took my husband. You took my soul. You took my innocence. Now, you will take nothing f...