Stories tagged “silent”
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Heavy Baggage At The Airport (talk challenge)
“You know, you talk too much.” It was a sarcastic statement because he never said a word. He was the quietest, shiest guy I had ever met. He simply smirked at my comment. We were sitting on the tailgate of his truck, parked just outside the...
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Where the Storm Clouds Part
You were silent Voiceless Yes, voiceless in the wake And another piece of cake Met your plate Weeks kept moving Down the calender You never said a word Not even a whisper Of how you wanted to go To where the storm clouds part Was the rain falling on yo...
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I am broken.
Sprawled on a surface I no longer recognize, my chest caved in due to an outburst of emotions. Ironic, as I no longer feel much save for an emptiness that tears at the hole where my heart should be. The corners of my eyes sting like cracks running thro...
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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...
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A Silent Storm
Jaci tentatively approached the form in the corner. She had her hoodie drawn over her head and was hunched over the lunch table, eating one of the Swiss Cake Rolls, the package of which was all she ever brought with her for lunch. She looked up at Jaci...
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Ready to Go
Twilight filtered in as we silently crept along. We were close, only two rooms and a stairway between us and the garage. Our run was mostly clear and Jess’ blade downed the parts that weren’t. My hand closed on the doorknob of the garage an...
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Ashes Remain: Prologue Part 2
Quivering digits turned the pale photograph over, my crystal orbs studying it’s backside. A short sigh of breath escaped as I turned the picture over once again. I stood, my gray suit jacket rustling against the wooden chair that I had just sat o...
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Choice
Sitting on the beach, arms stretched out behind me for support, fingers squished in the sand as I stare out at the rolling waves and crashing ice-caps. The day is slowly becoming cloudy. I am alone. I stand up, uncertain, and gradually wander away from...
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The Witness
Wardrums in the distance kept a steady beat. I don’t know whether its purpose was to unnerve us, or communication, but something was coming. I never heard anything else though I strained my ears, listening for the snap of a twig or the rustle of ...
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Extemporaneous Instance of Skin; Enlightened Love
The transparent surface reflects flesh eclipsing our skeleton’s silence on the water’s akimbo window a solid flow of indigo limbs where all we know bends like elbows; it blends where waving movements never end and I’m a part of ti...
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SILENT EYES chap 1 part 1
Chapter1: Cinderella There are many forms of the story Cinderella and everyone knows at least one of them. There’s the classic Disney version, the Ronald Dohl, that is a bit bloodier, and then there’s this version. In this version there are no glas...
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This Is Not Me.
It’s funny, the ways I find to pass the time. But what have I become? I’ve become someone something not me. And I’m not proud of it. But at the same time, I am; Attention enfolds me. Kisses smother me, suffocate me. Breath warm on my ...