Stories tagged “rose”
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My Beautiful Rescue
I’ve been dancing on the tops of buildings… Every day I wake up to you, and I smile. That smile’s just for you, you know. And when you smile back, it’s flawless. Everywhere I go, I wear your smile, the essence of you, around my ...
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Crushed (radiohead challenge)
Look at her, walking around with no idea she makes your heart melt. Her hair flutters in the breeze, her skirt caresses perfect curves and her blouse puckers in the right places as she walks to her first class. You watch her, mesmerized, yet unseen by ...
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Rose Garden
I know I was wrong, but I felt that I was right. You had told me to walk way, and come home. (A late husband’s voice remains inside my head.) Rose Garden a place of peace. I was only twenty when I had bought the remaining share of Rose Garden, it was...
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Rose Garden Part II
“Now come along, you wouldn’t want to leave Fran waiting now. Leave your bags by the door, and come along.” The small group of students hurried past Charles and walked into a great big hall. Pictures hanged from the walls, dating back to the 17 h...
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Rose Garden Part III
The students could smell the turkey as they walked down the hallway. As they made their way to the dinning room, they saw a enormous dining room table filled with food. The chefs were busing cutting up the turkey and placing it upon the plates. “Plea...
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Rose Garden Part IIII
“I could tell you one story of this house, right were you are sitting a young woman. Maybe in her twenties served a wealthy man, by the name of Keith. She had loved that man, served his every wish. She was no match with his wife, but that never stopp...
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Yellow Silk-like Rose [Retro Ficly]
On the hardwood floor are small square patches of early morning sunlight, glowing from the uncovered window in my bedroom. I can see the bright spots from where I lie in bed. I haven’t been awake for very long, but long enough to fully wake up and th...
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Alternative Titanic in 10 words
“Rose?” “Jack!” “Rose…” “Jack…” “Rose!!!” “Jack!” “ROOOOOOOOSSSSSSE!!!” “JACKKKKK!!!” “Ro – o-o-o-se….” (sinks)
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The Rose of Tears
The Rose of Tears Is coming for you Can’t you hear the dripping sound? The Rose of Tears Its coming for you It bids you turn around The petals are colored with depression The stem is thorned regret The leaves are beckoning to you A dark and dead...
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red sky in the morning
I woke up in a rowboat with a makeshift sail stitched of gray uniform fabric. The sky had a hazy strawberries and cream complexion that reminded me it was almost morning. I tried to remember what sailors said about rose colored skies, but the saying el...
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Check Out
Your scent still lingers on the sea foam sheets, amongst the scattered rose petals and off-white pillow. If I close my eyes and lean back, I can still remember every detail of last night. I check the Cartier gold watch you gave me as a second anniversa...
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Rose: Text-talk
Hours must have past when my cellphone beeped again. I got up and looked to see who texted me. Holly. Hey. U ok?, she texted. Yeah, I replied. Really?, she responded. I could picture her scowling at me. She knew me too well. I sighed. No im not. Want 2...
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Rose: To Holly's House
I hit the ground with a thud. I supressed a scream of pain. I stepped forward to make sure I didn’t break my foot. Nope, foot was still together. I sighed and started to walk. To bad mom took my fucking car keys I thought. I walked fast because H...
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inconsistencies
I let my hand graze against the tracks of fingerprints and dust on the bar. Reaching for the clouded glass, I was already intoxicated. My being here led me to believe that I was trapped in an abyss in which nothing could save me from. A hand from behin...
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Yellow Petals
Gently, I sit up in bed, letting the yellow silk of the sheets caress me. I reach one hand over to the small table next to my bed, extracting the yellow rose from the small, narrow-necked prison it has been confined to through the night, while with the...
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I Have Felt Being Loved
Being Loved, I have felt it so. It was a path very unknown. I walked and felt the glow, Of the sun, warming every bone. The beautiful rose I gathered, And the thorns never stung me. It seemed immortal and vividly colored With more than the eyes could s...
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“Won’t you follow me down to the Rose Parade?”
Her expectant face shown a bright light on the correct answer but I couldn’t bring myself to rise. How could I have gotten here; to the point where they all said I took this city for granted? It wasn’t true. I only eschewed the parade due to the fa...
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Beauty
Love blossoms Petal soft Rose lips
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Madam Rose's Arrival
It came slowly out of the sunset. Pulled by a pair of cobs, the vardo was painted an electric blue, its legend of “Madam Rose Sees All” made fluorescent by the pervasive starlight. A metal bowl of flames swung with the carriage’s chop...
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One Violet Rose
Lilac lace Traces Clove pink Clothes; The sun Set As one Violet rose
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Funny Names We Use
“We so shouldn’t be doing this,” he huffed without really stopping or slowing. “Shh, shh, not now.” Her response was teasing, just above a supressed giggle. Her grin spoke volumes, the sum total effect of which was to draw...