Stories tagged “words”
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This Gray Hoodie
I’m not thinking clearly. Shivering makes it difficult, all a person can focus on is getting warm. But I’ve never been good at focusing on the things I can’t confront. I may have broken your heart, but mine is broken too. I didn’...
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Finally (Just A Little Inspiration Challenge)
With a sigh and an encouraging smile of a guy looking at me, I start talking. And so the words just keep flowing. Everything I have wanted to say to him comes out. Not in a flurry though, but in a smooth flow like a slow song. I just stare into his eye...
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The Warning
She laid her hands On me That last time I was sick Tired I drew the line I don’t know what Went through her head She laughed the way She usually did But this time I was serious Just because I’m Different than her Doesn’t mean she has ...
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Falling to Walk
I was getting ready to show you the truth. To actually let you inside my head. I was so close to not pretending. But every time I had the courage to speak, the words wouldn’t make the sounds I so desperately needed you to hear. We were just sitti...
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Up On That Mast
It’s not so often we express What has become of our past What is to be our future And what we want to make of our present We’re locked down in this sea Tied to a mast of insecurity And it is in these lines We swim to shore So listen to ever...
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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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Slighted
Someday someone will say the right words to pull me out of this depression. I’ll turn on my computer and there they will be. It will be as a love note left just for me. The words will be gentle, forgiving, and from the right person at the righ...
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She Wore The Death Of Me On Her Tongue
She wore the death of me On her tongue Killed me with laughter Killed me with thought Killed me with depth Her vowels she hit soft Her consonants she hit hard People tried to get away from her voice of truth ‘Cause they were always afraid of the ...
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I Didn't Know I Wasn't Happy
I sat down to try and write it out. I sat down to actually try and say something, anything, put it down into coherent words and sentences. Something I haven’t been able to do for a while now. I sat down and tried to figure out exactly what I was ...
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Flow
Some names are more difficult to bring to mind than others. Tiny reminders sent to my train of thought to help me know what’s happening. A person is standing outside, a girl, with light hair and a bright smile. I go straight toward her. She’...
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14 Words
Its time for him to leave but he doesn’t want to leave her alone…
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Magic Carpet, Take Me There
Pages taste good. Their smell is an intoxicating aroma, the feel of them in your hands like no other on earth. The sound of one turning… The power they have, none can fathom. Like wings, they can take you where you have never been, where you have...
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Somnabulent Wordplay
Words on the floor, read in passing, “Goblins hide gold in the sunset.” Trifling things these missives of riddles, pages upon pages now tainted with red. Black should be the blood of the page, a flow only of ink, metaphorical blood. Mixing ...
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Jack and the beanstalk in 10 words
Boy climbs magic beanstalk, steals from giant; all expenses paid.
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The Little Mermaid
This is my story, for the 10 word fairytale challenge: She loved him. He didn’t love her. She died.
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Words
Words Running cross my mind Tip toe, sliding, cutting through the air jumping over fences, Hop scotch, bouncing over boundary lines How just words can echo through a hallway for eternity Connect all your memories with you and split personality Draggin...
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An Apostrophe to Creative Block upon NaNoWriMo Efforts.
O ye fiendish devils! That I may be blocked for the better part of two weeks from updating my essay this year, and that ye dost compel me to undergo a midterm examination of all manners physic, yea, ‘tis enough—but then ye pull the wool ove...
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The Lymond Chronicles in Ten Words
Francis Crawford – Lymond – is back. Poor Scotland. Poor Philippa. (If you haven’t read these books (and you love the Renaissance), you totally should! :D)
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The Talisman in 10 Words
Mother’s sick. Son journeys to parallel world. Saves them both.
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'The Screwtape Letters' in ten words.
Good and evil could be subjective, but aren’t. Demonic revenge.
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Regular expression.
I am not a writer, just a regular Joe expressing his whims with haphazardly chosen words. I don’t try to write well, I don’t attempt to provide new insight nor create anything that aspires to greatness. I don’t delve into my soul; the...
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Love More Than Hate
I remember writing, or trying to write, on this day three hundred and sixty-five days ago. I was crying. Maybe it was the exhaustion from staying up all night with my friends taking in the new year. Maybe it was the utter fear of what was to come. But ...
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AN EPIC TALE (in just 23 words)
“Borgdo! You must go to Wisadil and destroy the villian that plagues North-West Earth!” Five weeks later… “Sorry, Dangalf. I’m evil now!”
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Crate Full of Letters
The words flow like a river, like a waterfall, like a crate full of letters jumping off the highest cloud and floating gently to the earth on a cool breeze of inspiration The earth slows and stops, waiting for the words to stick, the breeze to shove th...
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15 Words Part 2
The stench of dried beer and nail polish assaulted his senses. This place was wretched.