Stories tagged “spirit”
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The Observer
I watch the paramedics work. They’re trying so hard. I can’t see who they’re working on, but they’re determined. I try to recall what happened. Everything flashes by in a blur. The party. Taking the keys from Tom. Driving him home. We started a...
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Reading My Own Grave.
“I just…I just can’t believe you’re gone” she said, staring deeply into my stomach. I presume she doesn’t know I’m standing right over her. “God, just, I just want him to know I love him. I didn’t m...
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Meditation
Keeping a clear mind: Leave no thoughts behind. Put these eyes into rewind ‘Til sight and spirit are aligned. Let all thoughts fall through. Who’s to say they’re true? The cold facts are never new So why dwell on them like we do? Get lost in the ...
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Well of Endless Sorrow
The well’s weathered rock, crumbling mortar and sickly-green moss that extended down into the earth had seen the passage of over 250 years. No one knew how deep it was or even who dug it. It had simply always been there, even mentioned in Jackvil...
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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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Illusion at its best
..It was as if I was floating in the direction of the light. The sounds kept getting shriller and I was so scared that my skin may have turned white. I kept saying to myself that I am brave and kept inhaling air and trying not to freak out when suddenl...