Stories tagged “perception”
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Look Behind You
The Places Nobody Is Looking are filled with strange Things, monstrous Things, though They are difficult to describe, for obvious reasons. These Things exist only in the absence of Sight. If an entire crowd is looking one direction, these Things will b...
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Who Can tell?
“The sky is large on large days and small on small days.” “Wha…??” “Let me explain: my perception of reality makes the sky bigger on big days, and smaller on small days. It’s like green, it gets darker on green days an...
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The Perfect Balance
I’ve always been fascinated by perception. How the way one person sees everything is completely different from another person. How we can never even begin to imagine how different things are to someone else. But even with our completely different...
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Perception
Perfection. I didn’t believe in it anymore. No matter how finely divided, delineated, or defined, it fell short. No matter how close it was not perfect, and that knowledge eats at us. It feeds on our old memories of older dreams. I forced myself ...
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Perception
You say don’t exactly follow the norm; that may be true, but I sometimes pick up that you keep closer tabs on what exactly is the norm so that you can purposely get away from it. At proper times you claim a rebellious nature, but given the nature...
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Faith
For every wrinkle on my face, And every twinkle in my eyes, I like to sprinkle on the faith, But religions are full of lies.
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Melinda
My peripheral vision mistook the conifer shrubs for people. I never looked directly at them, I just assumed that they were up to no good as I walked toward the security guard sitting next to the entrance of my apartment building. I self consciously ran...
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The Traveler....pt.3
He grew tired, too much running, not enough exercise. Stopped. Put his hands on his knees, desperately tried to catch his breath. Closed his eyes from the pain. Opened them again, to the left, a brand new baseball.Picked it up. Crowbar still in hand, h...
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The Metal Room
Rays of light. Ringing ears. He’d finally woken up. “Awake, stranger?” said a voice from a far. He couldn’t lift his head to see its point of origin. “Where am I?” “The end of time, space, and everything in bet...
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The Metal Room...pt.2
“You must tell me what he gave you” Marks shook his head. He looked up, straight at the stranger. “I found a baseball out there, that was weird” The stranger smiled. “The baseball is a symbol, a door, a key to our world&#...
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An Angel Lights the Dark Path of Their Dreams
Someone told me You had caroled solely But that you weren’t lonely Only that you went undoubtedly Without a one and only who wholly Understands your soul’s song and story Under drifts of snow you stand A candle held with both hands on the ...
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Enemies of the Age: Triumph of the Day
The Red Knight faltered as the the Warlord’s body finished deflating in front of him. Maxi tensed the muscles around his left eye, adjusting the telescopic part of his ocular enhancement. Tiny details obscured by distance became clear. There was ...
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A Personal History of the Future
When I was born, the future was unimaginably infinite. When I was eight, the future was flying cars and spaceships. When I was eighteen, the future was independence. When I was twenty-eight, the future was her. When I was thirty-eight, the future was t...
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Maybe...?
Maybe our dreams are our real lives, and our real lives are our dreams.
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Fade Away
Compelled gain knowledge and therefore hurt I am sure to withdraw into silence again For shadow is beauty while words remain curt When comes to a choice, I imagine in vain