Stories tagged “slow”
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Slow Children (signs challenge)
I would pull over and watch for them. I wanted to know who they were before I continued on. Often, they were like squirrels, they would turn and dart back the wrong way, the longer way, and you could squash them flat on accident. It was best to stop an...
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Slow Deaf Children Ahead (ficly challenge)
We’d been driving for hours, my family and I. And finally, we were almost home. But of course, there was another detour. So, we turn down this street, and low and behold, there it was. Spread out past the sign was a field of infinite green pastur...
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To the Event Horizon
Fast were the reactions. Virtual particle/antiparticle pairs appeared, interacted with space-time, disappeared. Some annihilated one another, but others were torn apart as the black hole swallowed one, letting the other one loose unto the Universe. The...
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Prison in Have to Be
Waiting, Waiting It consumes most of me With each second that ticks, My mind keeps shifting Between where I could, I should be, and where I have to be. Here, I have to be. Feels more like a prison, A prison with bars so thick, Seeing through it is stra...
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Year 5, Chapter 6, Part 4, Section IIX
I sat upright as only someone as accomplished as I am is able. This was a satisfactory movement for me, as my standards had finally begun to firm in their perfection. Training myself to be as superior as I am now has always been a hard task. As I turn...
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All Left to Be Done
Randall waited, as he always did for the crowd to disperse. The doctor, full of fatigue and some unspoken heaviness, pronounced the moment of death, a speck of precision amidst the vast uncertainty of the hereafter. The nurses retreated, so much to do,...