Stories tagged “refuge”
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Escape
Amy knew it was time for a change. She could feel the pressure of the city against her chest. The constant cacophony of car horns and endless chatter filled her brain every second of every day; she could hardly think. The smells—the smog, the smo...
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This Used to Be My Playground
I could feel my self clam up. My emotions threatened to overwhelm me and I forced them down. I had to leave, to go somewhere where I could deal with the news. Numbly, I heard myself say the right things, give the right people salutes, and worked my way...
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Urbanized
It looks eerily luminous in City. If I didn’t know any better, I would think it was cheery, up there in the scrapers. “I don’t know how they breathe without the sun,” you say, reading my mind. A sultry summer breeze swirls aroun...
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Semi-Conversations and Full Fledged Fear
Face smeared with grease and mouth full, Tom turns to see the saloon doors swing open. A shadow of a man enters the establishment. He fills the place. He is no more than a wisp. There is nothing to his visage, and within one can read the whole of human...