Stories tagged “forgetting”
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Moment Of Peace
Everyone was up and dancing and laughing and singing. Lone Writer shimmied her way over to where Band Baby, Bartimaeus, Blusparrow, and Elisabeth L. Davis were all dancing. She through her arms around Band Baby and then the others in turn. “IR...
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A Million Delicious Little Pieces
Honestly, we’ve all done it. Because our lives are so busy, so fast and we have so little time for patience, we multi-task, multi-carry, and multi-function. If there’s such a thing. In her case its a mom turned chuffer, turned baby sitter for ...
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Peapaw
You feel like a distant memory, laughing man in my photo. Your bear hug barely a brush on my shoulder. I fear I’m forgetting, much like you. Your raspy advice, growing fainter on the tapes of my mind, sounding more like ghostly noises, capture...
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Port of Call
Another port call, another dockside dive. Judson sat at the bar, slightly hunched, lost in the thin stream of smoke that rose from his cigarette. “Gimme another of whatever that was”, he grunted as he pushed his shot glass towards the old m...
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Remember to Forget
I forgot how to love for a while – something you think you have no control over is swept away as a defence, barred at the gates, not allowed to enter. Sitting, staring deep into eyes full of crystals, I remembered again, and forgot everything. Af...
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Last Stop
Janek felt the hiss of the steam from the cryogenic suspension chambers as he gradually awoke. The hydraulics that operated the lid to the chamber opened quietly, making a soft, gentle hum as they did. As the fog on the glass lid cleared, Janek saw him...
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Forget-me-not
I don’t know why I always feel like I do when I look at the picture. I’ll sit there for what feels like hours, holding it in my hands, curled up at the end of the couch, gazing at the fading, sun-bleached image on the curling photographic paper. Th...
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The Setting Sun of Perception
write for you despite what others do insight is true light blue like the earth from afar dark purple when your gravitational pull is unlit by our star… but you are star dust, right? that is why you glow so bright? then we must move through life a...
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Retracing Your Steps.
“Dear! If you don’t hurry up and get your shoes tied, we’ll never see Maggie blowing out her candles! Hurry!” Penny shouted to her husband, proceeding to the car. He strung the remaining loop through and pulled tightly. He went ...
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A Motion Between Two Mysteries
It happens to the best of us. One minute, the word, the thought, the emotion is on the tip of your tongue, about to burst. The next, it’s gone. Misplaced. Forgotten. It comes swiftly, like a thief, and leaves no survivors. Some claim they have t...