Stories tagged “understand”
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Empty Space
The sky is overwhelming sometimes. How big it seems when you look up and realize that… it’s endless up there. Full of nothing. Endless and endless amounts of space. Can you comprehend that? Emptiness… emptiness that never ever ends. I...
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Listening and Not Hearing
This is always problematic… difficult. I stand beside her recliner, awkward, scared. “Can I talk to you?” Here it comes: The casual glance; re-focus on the television. “Um, sure. What?” I can’t answer. It’s not...
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lampside lovers
“Oh,” Fritz’s face broke into recognition, “How was your date?” “Oh, him? Wasn’t a date in the least. I should reconsider using Craigslist for a means of social interaction. But that’s irrelevant. What re...
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This tiny wrist
She sat at the funeral stony-eyed. Refusing to cry, to show any emotion. Even as they lowered her closest friend and only brother into the ground, she shed no tears. They thought she was crazy, that she hated him, that she was glad he was gone. They co...