Stories tagged “rhythm”

  • The Syncopated Clock [pt 1]

    The aging clockmaker set down his tools and glanced at one of his many watches. It didn’t matter if the timepiece ran forwards, backwards, side to side, or announced the time in Bangkok, they all told him the same thing: it was late. He stretched...

  • And Not Get Washed Away - Poem

    And sunken in the cherry sands A sleeping sun awaits, That hiding cannot find it’s soul And drowsing learns to hate. The bloody sands are ripe with dew, The sun in shadow sits It tosses as they lengthen And rots within the pit. And newly washed w...

  • 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 ...

  • Continued...

    The building returns to its silent state and I am alone. I take a deep breathe and turn to my right where, only four feet away, sits a seemingly endless flight of stairs, its end shadowed by the darkness. It takes me about three steps to reach the sta...

  • This Thing Music

    This thing music has infiltrated me. It seeps through every pore of my body and soul until I cry out with passion. This pounding in my brain. This iron fist squeezing my heart until I am bled of all doubt. Until I give in to this thing music. This thin...

    • Author: Mackizme
    • Posted over 2 years ago.

  • Ho Hum

    Refusing breath I exhale a hum With all that is left In my numb Lungs of flesh— Soon to become The sum of death.