Stories tagged “tear”
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You And Me
What day is it? And in what month? This clock never seemed so alive. Hand in hand, ear to chest, we’re synchronized. We’re two heartbeats in one song, keeping the tempo steady. We’re keeping our world spinning. Cause’ it’s...
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One Last Step in Your Direction
My steps slow. One last step in your direction. One last smile. One last tear rolls. One last look at you. One last thought that things could have worked. One last thought of regret. One last wish on the impossiblity. I turn my feet. One last hearing o...
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eyes staring through the heart
She stands up in a posture fabricated with false pride. She hears the footsteps getting louder and quicken pace. she hears her name being called from the other side of the door. The other side she never wants to see. She pushed down the sleeves of her ...
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What Will Life Offer Me In This Journey
Another night alone, sitting at my desk. I look in the mirror; I expect to see a man filled with riches. A heart filled with gold, a mind so brilliant. Sigh all that is to see is me, in my torn up jeans, bagging shirt that hasn’t bin washed in a whil...
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Shhh, everything is going to be fine
I woke up and saw Mr. Jones holding something on my stomach. I turned to see Will kneeling by my side and holding my hand. I could tell that he had been crying. All my friends were standing around me too, they had been crying too. I opened my mouth to ...
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I needed him there
I didn’t know where I was, when I blinked my eyes open and looked over I saw my mom and dad talking to someone. She was holding a tissue in her hand and was crying like crazy. I realised it was a doctor and I was in the hospital. My dad looked ov...
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Continued...
I realize now the fear coming from my face, the worry of my parent’s faces, and the sadness from the doctor’s face. I can tell the conversation is coming to the end, I can read his lips and the sentence is almost complete. The only words I actually...
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A Love To Die For
He tried to hold my gaze, but my hazel eyes dropped to the linoleum floor as he let out a loud sigh. He desperately threw his arms around my petite shoulders, but to no avail. “I wish you could tell me what’s wrong,” he whispered in m...
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The crisis line
Kelly drove home from work. She was so upset, she could barely concentrate on the road. Her tears stung her eyes, and blurred her vision. She kept thinking about Mike. She stepped into her apartment building, went up to the her floor, and went into her...
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More Than Nothing (Part 5)
As I felt the door reform my heart sank, taking my breath with it. Something that was already hard was going to be near impossible now. My whole body cringed in pain; healing from the trauma I brought to it. I couldn’t move either arm. The numbne...
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Ear What She Nose
She nose But she doesn’t ear, I suppose, With one eye open clear The other frozen closed By the cold upon her tear.
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Smother My Cries
I am from hateful glares and cold stares. I am from misled trust and never ending lust. I am from stolen powers and scentless flowers. I am from hushed screams and one man teams. I am from unshed tears and hidden fears. I am from screamed lies and dark...
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Ashes Remain: Prologue Part 2
Quivering digits turned the pale photograph over, my crystal orbs studying it’s backside. A short sigh of breath escaped as I turned the picture over once again. I stood, my gray suit jacket rustling against the wooden chair that I had just sat o...
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Paradoxes: Visitations of the Lowly
A world of squalor paraded before young Talus’ eyes, blinking in and out of existence behind the wooden bars of his cage. Nobles floated along, oblivious, uncaring, or both. Merchants zipped this way and that, urgently striving and conniving. Pea...
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Scared.
He took a deep breath. He focused on the taste of the air- crisp, clean, with a slight hint of cigar smoke somewhere in the distance. He held the breath in, contemplating. He exhaled slowly, letting his eyes graze over the dotted tiles of the ceiling. ...