Stories tagged “poverty”
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This is it
The chime rang throughout the room as he flipped the coin again. His last dollar. It landed on heads and he grinned: “Heh, Lady Luck don’t fail me now.” Giving the coin a kiss, he set it down on his mouse pad, in front of the last cup...
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The Fairy Trade
A shoemaker and his wife lived together in a small cottage with their thirteen young children. The family was very poor. One warm spring night the shoemaker’s wife was in the bedroom with her youngest child, an infant. The other twelve children were ...
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Poverty
Bad news, interviews, dripping wax, mending cracks, phone call, fuck it all.
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A Shameful Cycle
Write, write I think I might. Rant, rant You think I can’t? Ramble, ramble Life’s in shambles. Pain, pain To bed I’ve lain. More, more I’m but a whore. Working, working Bedroom lurking. Food, food Would fit my mood. None, none S...
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Christmas Lights (Paranoid Android)
Color seeped from the pitch black sky, as the frail figure on the path tightened her grip on the plastic bags. A wind whispered behind, brushing dark trees. Nothing but darkness now. Her breath stuck in her chest. The old lady stopped. Back in the slum...