Stories tagged “taken”

  • They Came to Take Me Away

    They’re going to take me away. They’re going to take me away. I knew they would do it, and I went and blew it. I boned it, screwed up, shut down, blew up, hosed it, lost it, botched it, broke it. They want me there. Away from here. I can...

    • Author: Sam Ervin
    • Posted almost 3 years ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • I Can't Stop Myself

    They took me away. I’ve left. Gone away. Disappeared. Vanished. I’m no longer where I was, I’m in a new place. I’m stuck in a cell. Locked up, pinned down, held back, chained to the wall. It’s not that different than my pa...

    • Author: Sam Ervin
    • Posted almost 3 years ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Taken: Memories of Absence

    In a way that memory was definitive of all the time I spent at my father’s house. More than anything else, I remembered the lengths and breadths of his absences, often punctuated with strange gifts that I invariably lost or gave away. One such gi...

  • Taken: An Unfortunate Inheritance

    “I am no more dead than you!” I replied sharply. It was a struggle against the passage of time and the swell of unpleasant memories to recall the gardner’s name. After a moment of staring at that hardened and aged face, that had more ...