Stories tagged “memento mori”
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Don't Blink
He had read the phrase accidentally and yet it lay buried into his skull, constantly drilling itself deeper until leaving him a shaking mass. Cold water could not flood it out. * He breathed and felt a stiff breeze blow through him and remembered what ...
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Talisman
Her fingers went lax and the necklace dropped to the floor, the sound loud in the grieving silence. My heart hammered in my chest and I felt something building in my throat straining for release. An inhuman keen filled the room and it wasn’t unti...
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Inevitable-- Already Gone
Get snuggly With ugly Shed a lovely somebody If an ‘above me’ attitude reveals Exactly what tacky pulchritude Hides inside once it peels I’d rather elude ‘Too cool crude’ For a gargoyle, dude, Who’ll gruel out a due...
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What The Hell Do You Think I'm Doing!?
I erupt, “What the hell do you think I’m doing!? Of course I’m going to work!” Silence. I locate my shoes— the last step to completing my attire. I kneel down to tie them, feeling remorseful for shouting back at her. We bo...
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Extemporaneous Instance of Skin; Enlightened Love
The transparent surface reflects flesh eclipsing our skeleton’s silence on the water’s akimbo window a solid flow of indigo limbs where all we know bends like elbows; it blends where waving movements never end and I’m a part of ti...