Stories tagged “sound”
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Hideaway and Lullaby
“Pity,” Miss Schumann signed, frowning in a good-natured way. Harold made his cross face and signed back, “What?” Smiling as she looked around Harold’s room, his new room, his perfectly sound-proofed room, “You regai...
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Oliver
Oliver looks like your typical grand: black case, 52 white keys and 36 black keys, the lifted top contoured to the classic piano shape. But, really, what piano is typical? To me, Oliver is Oliver because of the lower register; it’s very strong, p...
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Good Morning
Consciousness creeps into his world like a seasoned cat burglar. Sounds, sights, sensations indefinable through the cotton wool of sleep, he feels nothing but cold. Her touch is like firecrackers. His skin pops and glows and comes alive as she draws h...
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Unbearable Love
Candace removed James’ hands from her arms. She looked at the man who she loved for most of her life. She choked on her words, trying to say it as best as she could. “We need to see where our future takes us.” Candace opened the door ...
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On the Edge
The air is crisp and cold, there is a rather heavy breeze in the air. With every step I take forward, a part of me wants to take another step back. Each time I breathe in, my lungs do not want to let the air back out. My fingers are numb from the cold ...
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All the Light and Sound
There should be a light, or light above everything this early. Winter may be here to shorten the days, but never until now did the nights come so early. Mud and snow mixed into a slush, he didn’t care much about wet shoes. When the bright reds tu...
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All the Light and Sound pt:II
“Don’t move.” Shaking beams of light and one brighter than 40 spotlights suddenly poured out behind the trees. It was a stolen light. He put his hands up to his eyes and sank to his knees into the snow. “Where are you coming fro...
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i won't be home for christmas
The snow fell lightly, covering the row of brick houses in a dense white blanket. Children ran through the alley whooping and cheering because of the snow day, parents grumbled as they shoveled pathways out of their doors. I watched them from the windo...
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Hyper-Warfare
The speakers blasted the soldier through the tunnel. Hyper-warfare, the papers were calling it. Sound crushed his helmet like tinfoil, ripped through his uniform like it was Kleenex, and disintegrated his boots like the particle-beam weapon he was carr...
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Incessant White Noise
I am trying hard to concentrate on the seemingly meaningless jumble of numbers and letters, trying to make sense of it. Maths has never been my strong point, and the more I try to focus, the more the numbers seemed to swim across the page. But thatR...
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A Letter To Mr. Persaud
As we sat there, only the awkward silence pierced through the room; all of us just waiting. Waiting for sound. None of us knew it at the time, but we had all been in the same positions before: the same exact places in that very room. Waiting for sound....
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Take That
Clear blue skies out over a dusty desert. His rocket powered aircraft drifted safely away from the huge, four-engine, propeller-driven, B-29 bomber. Chuck felt the ache of two broken ribs; an injury suffered after being thrown from a horse. 45,000 feet...
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Quieter Than Silence
It’s that noise again. It grates against my sanity, flickering flames against the sounds of my mind. It’s always here. It cannot be stopped, lest the sound escape. Heh. It’s always around. Ubiquitous. Not there. Not here. They thought it ende...
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When You Don't Know the Words
My shoulder is going to break before the door. Still it withstood his bashing, standing solid and metallic, each bang resonating strangely through the small cell-sized room. No window, no light. No other way out. But Wol couldn’t stop. Ree wasn&#...
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The Making of a Musical Genius
All you could hear was flipping through paper. It sounded like the shuffle of a casino deck of cards. His eyes never wandered from this magical thing. He laughed. Sitting quietly on a bed for hours. Nothing but wonder in his eyes. As his senses heighte...
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Your Eyes.
Your eyes. You know how I melt in your eyes. They’re lies, they hypnotize, disguise. I despise your eyes. They look They stare without a care, everywhere. Do I dare lose myself in your eyes? I’m lost I’m found. All around there is no...