Stories tagged “small”
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Empty Space
The sky is overwhelming sometimes. How big it seems when you look up and realize that… it’s endless up there. Full of nothing. Endless and endless amounts of space. Can you comprehend that? Emptiness… emptiness that never ever ends. I...
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Small Rubberbands
Walking quickly, Pommergranette the 18 week old rubber band from Leopold Province glanced up to the sky. He stopped. Checked his watch. Sighed. ‘Why do I have so much work to do?’ he thought to himself. It’s true, with the new promot...
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Feeling the Big and Little Sky
Teh sky is large on large days and small on small days. hm. when I feel large and in charge, things are goign right. but being big means you are generous as in “that’s big of you!” I guess large is a good thing here, a happy thing. so...
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The Small 'Uprights'
We watched, crouched in hidden gulches and behind trees. Wondering what these small entities were able to accomplish, we watched in total fascination, every move, every step. We telepathically recorded every thought, every emotion. These small entitie...
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Love can Break the Strongest Wall
It is one of my worst fears realized… I am alone. What I thought was in my grasp was just a figment. It was really all in my head. Every look he gave me, every flirt, every smile, every conversation meant nothing to him and everything to me. All ...
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Part 2: The Fire
The black smoke could be seen for miles. Everyone gathered around. Ellen’s neighbor, Martha Soubrette, began to cry; this wasn’t the first time someone had been killed in the lottery. Emotionless, Justin and Ali (Allison) began to contempla...
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Part 3: The Phoenix
That’s when the magic began. The ashes were shoveled out and where the old house once stood, the community of Hestia began creating a newer, better one, and Ellen’s family stayed in the home of the Soubrettes. The new house was almost compl...
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Kate
Deke showed up in the Omni at ten to three, and if he’d been any slower I’d have freaked out on him. Damn I needed a smoke. Deke swung it on to third-gear road and we made the bends slow while we burned one down. We was only halfway through...
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Small Statue
Plug your next idea Into the socket by the rug Watch it light up like a chandelier As dinner guests either clap or shrug ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ What this poem did Will never entrall Like the Statue of David I sculpt it too small And (heaven forbid) Pl...
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Awake -
I woke up. I guess I had never really been asleep. My eyes were open, my body moving, reacting, but I was in a daze. The last shell seemed closer than the rest. It’s difficult to judge the distance anymore. I can barely hear the explosions, yet I...
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Ashes Remain: Prologue Part 1
I looked up, waking from a daze. My cold, pale fingers shook as they held a small black-and-white photo. It was of a small girl, maybe 16-years in age, cuddling a black kitten in her slender arms. He face was scrubby, her clothes looked like they had n...
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Ashes Remain: Chapter One;; Part 1
I sat hunched over a keyboard, punching in keys with great speed. I took pride in my work, although it was only a boring office job. I was merely a number in a sea of cubicles, but at least I enjoyed what I did, being anonymous. I heard someone clear t...
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A Farm By The Sea
We are small Yet We are it all Wet within dry skin Combining when Sweating Like a mountain Of smirking surfaces Lurking in the murk of purposes We breathe and leave no traces of escape Upon the landscape Footprints pockmark under pond’s Landmark...
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Travelling Companions
5.7 cm long. .9 cm across. Brass, steel, and powder. I love you. I imbue you with power and with luck. You, me, and your 19 friends we’ll take on the world. Tiny soulless pillar of strength, you don’t feel fear or even worry. To you the odd...