Stories tagged “midnight”
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Jailbreak
In no particular order, she makes sure she has: -iPhone -brush -chewing gum -a photo of him at the cabin -keys -wallet She backs out of the gravel driveway, not bothering to look for traffic. It is late, and he is waiting. On the radio, CentroMatic. Qu...
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Haiku Week Haiku #3
It’s almost midnight. My eyes reflect a white screen. Damn insomnia.
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Text'd Me in Midnight
BEEP! Ah! Message :). “An apology is a good way to have the last word. If only I could turn back the time and start everything all over again… " … hm… ugh! It’s him again. “What!? " I replied back. “S...
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Personal Assistance
“Cindy, bring me a chinchilla.” Cindy sighed as the intercom next to her bed snapped to life. As the personal assistant to Rupardt Heldt, she was used to random requests. “It’s 3AM, sir. We’re in Toronto. We can’t get a chinchilla right...
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A Midnight Stroll
It was always midnight here. Like an old silent film, no colors and no sounds. Of course, it was still brighter here than on the Shadowside. The guys were always joking that if Jim didn’t behave, they’d make him do the maintenance there ins...
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Writing for the Devil
Mack looked at the clock. 11:53pm. It was so close to midnight. He looked up again at his computer screen. No words had magically appeared. He had hardly written anything at all the entire night. It was just too incredibly difficult to be forced to wri...
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All the Colors In This Dark Room
There’s a clatter on the far end of the room, maybe from the kitchen. Laughter to my left, a woman coughs by the bar. The clock hits twelve. Midnight, that is. The magic hour. The rules dissolve, the music kicks up, and the pulse flows through ev...
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Midnight Ritual
I hear the voices from my invisible prison. Calling me. Inviting me. Tormenting me. Though it has happened so many times before, I can’t help myself but feel a small sense of growing hope that this time, this time is the time. They found him, som...