Stories tagged “potential”
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What Do You Think Of Me?
I ask my parents what they think of me and the conversation goes like this: “You are a beautiful girl,” my mom says. I’m not that pretty, nevertheless it is in the mom handbook to tell your daughter this whenever they ask you how an o...
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New Year: Same Potential (do more challenge)
I sat, surrounded by loud music with an undercurrent of mumbling crowds, drink in hand, watching the swirling disco ball. “So, new year, huh? Chance to start over, do something wild. Wanna hang out?” A man reeking of peppermint smiled drunk...
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Doubt...
Palpable Breath lets Of alcohol… Desperate… Losing all control… Seizing no outlet His potential is plentiful But he doubts it He’s hollowing within Apparently the transparent bottle’s Been swallowing him
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Nothing Out There
Rae’s eyes drifted back across the gorge, at first vacant, then slowly overcome with a vague resolve, “Scan your memory banks and available data. What’s on the other side of the gorge, past the barrens?” After a brief delay the ...