Stories tagged “pulse”
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Sunday Worst
“Benton!” cried the nanny, rushing at once to his side. The man had fallen facedown like a corpse across his breakfast, one hand in his lap and the other stretched across the table, contorted painfully as if clutching the throat of an invis...
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Let that be the end
He could hear only her labored breath over his pounding pulse, he could see only her swollen face through his hot tears. “I’ll kill him.” His speech struggled. “He… I’ll kill him.” The motion of her cracked and...
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donating blood
There is a hole in my arm. Right in the middle. It’s small and perfectly round, oh, and it’s bleeding. Well, not bleeding anymore, but it was. Blood started flowing almost as soon as the needle pricked its way in and I was hooked up to the ...
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Pulsations
The pulse whistled through the air, unaffected by any outside force. Like smoke in the wind it glided through all obstacles, continuing onward in a continuous flow of energy. The green-tinted mist rappelled across rocks, swam through oceans, and flew t...
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Pulse
I write and write and write and hate it and backspace and backspace and backspace over and over and over and none of it ever sounds right. I’ve got so many thoughts running through my head, but none of them clear. It’s like my mind is so in...
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Lovely Eyes
Scott’s eyes raked across my flesh, forcing screams from my peeling lips. My body writhed on the slick sidewalk, burying small pebbles in my elbows. “Don’t. Ever. Deny. Me. Again,” Scott hissed, pulsing pain through my body with...