Stories tagged “missing”
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Everywhere and Nowhere
I remember the car alarm going off, sounding ever so loudly, and seeing you rush outside. The slippers on your feet were new looking, but you’ve had them for months— everyone buys slippers, but forgets to wear them. So as the rain falls dow...
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That Song
It’s one of those songs. The kind that makes your heart melt a little. The kind that makes you kind of sad. The kind that makes you… wonder. The kind that makes you smile that small, sad smile. You know the one. It makes you wonder about bi...
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Gates & Shadows
She stood before the gates, looking up at the aged iron and hesitating to touch them. It was close to eleven o’clock at night, and here she was, standing outside the Diviny manor, cowering like a mouse before its yawning gates. It was safe to say...
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A Scar in the Forest
Cabin 42 was on the end of a long row of cabins. There was a family renting it, so I didn’t get too close. It was made of logs, 11 large logs high, as you would expect a cabin to be, and had a little porch that looked over the lake. Little window...
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Ranger Danger
Silently I walked to where the porch would have been overlooking the lake. Suddenly I was standing on that porch, looking over the lake just like this, only, arms were wrapped around me. I felt loved, I smiled. The big, strong arms were heavy and warm....
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Saturn is missing
“That’s a big ol’ wtf”, she said, pronouncing each letter individually. Me, I say ‘m all together, wift, and yeah I know they’re out of order but that’s how I rock, right? “What is?” I said. “...
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She Looks Like You {Poem}
Something about the way she sits, sending warnings to all around. They leave her alone; except for a few men, either brave or stupid enough to try getting within her fortress walls. She holds her umbrella, point down, like a sword, ready at any second ...
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Rewind
The note to me: Hey, I’ve been thinking about my life lately & you popped in my mind. When it comes to you, I wish I could push the rewind button on our relationship. Knowing what I know now and what I have learned from the people around me has r...
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Missing You (Part 1)
The clock showed 1:59 am and Jane was sitting under the lamp preparing for the next day’s court battles. Eyes shore and hand cramping, the only thing keeping her from falling asleep where she sat was the thought of the defender’s crushed fa...
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Missing You (Part 2)
They started dating and soon fell in love. Things got a little strained when she went to law school while he back-packed through Europe. It wasn’t a lack of trust, it was the constant worry about him that caused the strain. After that dilemma, th...
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600 Miles
600 miles five empty finger spaces four somber eyes three weeks two hearts one soul
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I'll Be Missing You
When the songs we fell in love with together come on, I’ll be missing you. When I see new or old pictures of you or when someone says your name, I’ll be missing you. If your favorite movie is playing, I’ll be sitting on the couch with...
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The Five Steps (Part II)
My whole body is like a cave. Empty and full of nothing. This new lonely hurts so bad it feels like someone is squeezing my body in their hand until I ooze out between their fingers and become a puddle on the floor. And then they step on me. I feel lik...
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Until I can See You
Until I can see you All I can do is dream That you are here And the distance is gone Waiting for you Is like waiting for summer Longing for the warmth And when things come alive I can’t make time Pass any faster Can only make the best Of not see...
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Now a Stranger
On a whim she decided to cut through the old neighborhood on her way home. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but as she approached she felt put off by the old familiarity she once had but seemed to be lacking lately. She pulled her hat down furth...
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Prison in Have to Be
Waiting, Waiting It consumes most of me With each second that ticks, My mind keeps shifting Between where I could, I should be, and where I have to be. Here, I have to be. Feels more like a prison, A prison with bars so thick, Seeing through it is stra...
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22: Missing
Special Agents Clarke and Driscoll surveyed the room. It was a cramped little bedsit in a bad neighbourhood. The chalk outline marked the place where the body had lain, slumped over the end of the bed. “This is an open and shut case,” Drisc...
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I Wish, I Think
I need peace. That seems impossible now. My thoughts are constantly, Unchangably on you. I wish things were different. Then I could welcome These thoughts, These memories. I wonder If you Think of me as much as I think of you. I wish it were so.
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Creek of Tears
It was harder than I thought Getting across this Creek of Tears I tried to swim across, but The current spit me out I tried to float across, but Was met with a face full of water I tried to jump across, but Came up short and plunged in Only to be washe...
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Searching
There’s this sentence That sits beyond a blockaded entrance It goes on never ended And yet it’s already gone Solid but blended Pallid and soft Acrid and stone With its feathers aloft Drifting away But always at home You can never stray ...
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Experiencing the pain of love
I miss you. I miss you so much. Missing you hurts, it hurts me in my body. In my flesh. When I stop and be silent, I feel a cropped up excruciating feeling. An acid sadness and a thorny hopelessness wrapped around me, suffocating me, smothering me. I...
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Loose Change: 411
His footsteps battered in rapid succession against crackling, cracked concrete. Streetlamps spread his swift-flowing outline across the pavement and into the caverns of tenable black alleyways. A darker duo of shadows hurriedly followed the first. The ...
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Previously on BATTLESTAR GALACTICA...
02:36:11 AM “Thanks for bringing this to our attention,” Sara’s dad sighed on the phone, while absentmindedly sifting through a stack of bills. “Of course,” replied Arnold’s father. “I just don’t know what to do about these kids.” “...
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Like A Tractor Beam
Joe unplugged his headset and walked outside to smoke a cigarette. Once he was outside of Julie’s spell, he remembered that he hadn’t seen Dawn all day. He took a drag of his cigarette and pulled out his i-phone. The call went straight to v...
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Quiet Sendoff
Ben stood in the terminal near Gate 13 at DFW watching the Boeing jet get slowly pushed back into the taxiway. He leaned against a wall and tried to relax as he studied the plane. Using the scrutiny he had learned as an F-15 crew chief in the Air Force...