Stories tagged “landscape”
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Walking Away
If I let my eyes glaze over a bit, I can see the bloom of the autumn colors in the landscape before me. The almost neon-green on the fields clashes with the dull blues and oranges of the houses and oranges of the small town. The massive dark purple clo...
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Ghosts I-IV
In the barrenness, I sit alone. The scrubs stetch out into the foothills of the brown mountains, regular punctuation decorating the grey sand. They rustle ever so softly at my feet. I’m daydreaming. I’m not sure why I like this; I guess the...
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A Farm By The Sea
We are small Yet We are it all Wet within dry skin Combining when Sweating Like a mountain Of smirking surfaces Lurking in the murk of purposes We breathe and leave no traces of escape Upon the landscape Footprints pockmark under pond’s Landmark...
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Silver
The conditions were perfect – a blanket of thick cloud covered the full moon, casting the terrain into deep shadow. The two of us were perched high on the hills overlooking the valley, scanning the ground far below. The spotter looked up from his sco...
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Broken Shadow
In the silence of the night, a few more syllables. I gave the silhouette one notch left on the scope, and two up before placing my finger on the cold steel trigger. “Target confirmed.” It was the biggest I’d ever seen, certainly. A hundred kilos ...