Stories tagged “freezing”
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Nano Pt. 1
Of all the places to wake up in, the morgue is the probably most disconcerting. It’s especially bad when you’re inside one of those body bags—there’s no way to open them from the inside. Apparently, the best way to escape is to ...
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I Accept the Enevitable
I should have spent that last night with him, all he’d asked, was to spend those few hours with me but, I was busy getting ready, had to be prepared. I had to be prepared to sit on top of the world, freezing to death. Thoughts of his warm body, m...
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read to me
The water seemed to hover on the great expanse of the Delaware river, almost like a blue sheet caught horizontally in the wind. It was mesmerizing in an ordinary way, but I was stuck on it. The wind blew frigid air in every uncomfortable direction, and...
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Swiftly Given Death of Emotion
Burning, robbing Breaking trust The adamantine heart dreams Not quite dying – yet lost. The antithesis of hate This frostwork flame feeds On secondhand songs – and sleeps, Not yet dead – but dying. Cold blow the winter words That wrap...
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The Unfortunate Occurences of Sam Wilderbee
Sam fumbled around with his keys as he tried to open his car door. It was far too cold outside to be fumbling around, but he could not help it. His fingers were numb from holding a slurpee from seven-eleven that his girlfriend Carol desperately needed....