Stories tagged “thought”

  • Loss of Hearing

    I lost most of my hearing when I met you. All the negativity I was told all my life, I couldn’t listen to anymore. The only thing you let me hear was you. I want to know how you did it. I want to know why you did it. Why did you protect me from a...

  • Advice

    This will be the biggest decision he’ll ever have to make, so he attempts to summon it. It’s always there, a part of himself that he accepts. He has come to rely on it. He assumes that everyone possesses it. Sometimes it surfaces often. A l...

    • Author: nrwilk
    • Posted almost 3 years ago.
    • 4 out of 5

  • The Spiral

    I took the marker and started drawing a spiral. Nothing else, just a spiral. I kept drawing around and around and around and around. The red went on and on and on and on and on in one huge spiral, over and over and over. In circles, one big circle, I j...

  • Interlocking Definitions

    “I’ll remove all…” The words kept echoing in Violet’s head, her new head. She tried to chase them away rather than dwell on implications and possibilities. All day, Rae moped around the garage, fiddling with this or that w...

    • Author: THX 0477
    • Posted over 2 years ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Looking Back

    As I glance right behind me, The past is sure to follow. Choking on my memories, This truth is hard to swallow. I wake up each morning With an elephant comfortably on my shoulders. For this burden I cannot shake Has left me constantly pushing boulders....

  • Sweet Disposition

    I have every thought possible running through my mind. Every emotion is taking over my actions. I have lost sight of who I am in all of this-these past months have been a torment. Nobody recognizes me because there is no “me” to start with ...

  • Lost at Sea

    The summer sun came through my closed eyelids in waves of pink and orange. The sea rocked us in its lazy way, while the breeze kept the smell of salt in my nostrils. A week out of Mar del Plata we had provisions a plenty and an ocean of adventure ahead...

    • Author: THX 0477
    • Posted about 2 years ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Lost Thoughts

    Watered phrases Sprout acres of Hallwayed mazes Lost thoughts Wander through Each fictional avenue My mind grew

  • Wonder

    It makes you wonder. Don’t know what i’m talking about yet? Of course you do. The reason is different for me. The reason is different for you. But it still makes you wonder. “What are you talking about?” Don’t ask me. I...

  • No Good Dwells

    I shouldn’t have noticed her, but I did. She always sat in the front row, taking notes and adjusting the straps on whatever dress she was wearing that week. She was like a virgin priestess. She was young and beautiful, vibrant and giving— Traits th...

    • Author: D.E DeWitt
    • Posted over 1 year ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Re-post (but now it's a better buttered piece of toast)

    Does ‘Because’ Rust love’s Rose buds Orange? Or does It open On its Door Hinge The More Spoken hope Reveals thoughts Quiet tongues click In key strokes sent Sealed in envelopes? I am the listless Tree on the hill In the distance...

  • everything not as good as it seems (Mature)

    I’d read online unconfirmed reports of this new breed of killer. Conflicting reports. Some said it was a small group of people who were in a particular place at a certain time, others said it was an alien thing, and still more said that one day, ...

  • Silent Signature

    You are a living Human being Reading Seeing letters Form words Pronouncing them With no sound Hearing these emblems Blend between The silence of your mind And the computer screen Permanent signatures inside are signed The tattoo’s of language are...

    • Author: Tad Winslow
    • Posted over 1 year ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Loose Leaf Sheets

    One side’s wide And dull The other side slides Invisible Both are pale And plainly painful Plentiful; Palpable Paper cutting blades; Bleach-blank (title) tidal (waves) page Lost; froze Embossed; flows Why solidify what you think In dry graphics...

  • Cruel Cocoon

    cruel residual jewel of venomous emptiness— in the dual mirror— a visual temptress stepping naked coming nearer; you can’t hear her spreading palm down on your chest with pink painted fingernails impaling, pulling off flesh dressed b...

    • Author: Tad Winslow
    • Posted about 1 year ago.
    • 4 out of 5

  • Making Monday Nights Even Hotter

    ‎"Another cigarette?" his stoned voice asked, followed by a chuckle as his bare, muscular arm stretched over handing me a cigarette. Stoned and toned. We have fun.

  • The Tree Song-Part 2

    Think deep and outreach intrusive thoughts Sink them swirling you ponder hard I can’t read your juicy fruity mind So is it ever in my regard? You’re a pretty dark and dirty soul Rich with minerals and a diamond mind Got that gushy goo center to ho...