Stories tagged “self”
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Serviceable Blade
“Not much to look at, is it?” the young man scoffed at the blade, roughly made and without ornamentation. “It’s serviceable is what it is,” corrected the merchant, “Blade on one side for slicing, teeth on the back fo...
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Dear Younger Me
Dear younger self, Let’s get a few things straight. First: It doesn’t matter what your friends—or even, sometimes (albeit very rarely), your parents—say. Never compromise who you are. Second: That rock band you’re in? Leav...
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Existential
Within a world Lips curled Tight to the tongue Exhaling a lung Of swirled words— They come unclung From this conscience I’m among.
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Just Trying To Make Sense
Sometimes I just can’t stand it To be all alone and forgotten Sometimes I just can’t stant it To be heard and seen from all directions I can’t explain these things I feel All I know is they are there And there they are to stay You ask...
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Chronicles Of Millie and Me Chapter 5
I casually approached Demetri and was about to introduce myself when he saw me and screamed so loudly that if I were still alive my ear drums would have burst. I could sense his every fear of me projected onto me. I found it so upsetting so I vanished ...
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Lengths
I shall run to the end of your sight Far from your judging ways Your cutting gaze My lovelorn malaise The love of your heart shall wound me no more I shall ride to the end of the land Out from the jostling masses Ignorant classes Muttering asses This u...
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Walking Skeleton
She stared at herself in the mirror. Her eyes glanced at the distorted image that reflected back at her. The girl’s cheeks were sunken in, and she was paler than most teenagers her age. Alyssa swallowed and let her eyes trail down to her torso. H...