Category: snippet
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One More Dance?
Oh yes, I like this. No, I love this. Air so thin, I can taste those familiar, desperate breaths. Wiser this time; you cleared the sidelines. Wiser this time; you locked the doors. Wiser this time; you shoved them out. But in your efforts to spare them my touch. You effort yourself right into it. …
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Should I Ever Choose It (Part I)
The space is dark, and I feel a sharp pain in my shoulder. I touch it with a hand, and find a hole spewing crimson down my arm. A grotesque voice calls out, as I see two gleaming red dots in the distance, “Come, little sheep, back to the arms where you were nurtured. Come,…
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The Price Willingly Paid
(E): You cannot live out there, alone. No one survives, alone. It is in our nature, to require reliance as we require nurturance, to grow. How certain can you be, that you know the way on your own? (L): I don’t know.. The only thing I do know, is that I may never learn to…
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Waiting, But Always Here.
The room is silent as sunlight floods through the open window. Unlike the last time, there was light in the room. Unlike last time, I am seated right before it. My body sat firm. I sensed a great peace preparing to engulf me. Has the sun always felt this warm? A radiance as addicting as…
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Gravedigger
“Having been born of grief, I think I have long since forgotten the appeal of a life that is empty.” the gravedigger mutters to the lady in white beside him. He plunges his shovel deep into the soil at his feet as he hoists it out of the growing hole he dug. “Or perhaps I…
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A False King
“You think me a pawn!?” the knight captain booms, his voice shaking the hall they stood in “You think me a fool who would absently follow the heedings of a corrupt man? You think I would yield to your orders, and lay my life down for that which has forsaken me? That which would forsake…
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Lost No Longer
“To kindred hearts!” Marius yells, “That we may one day be lost no longer!” Adam raises his cup to toast his words into being, but his companion, Orion, stops it with a hand. “To be lost, is a merciful pain.” Orion says, “In our failure to find north, we learn the brittle reality of nomads…
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Beyond The Skyline
“What lies beyond?” she asked me with a voice so innocently sad. “Do the cosmos echo the melody of starbound travelers? Are there stardust rivers that ripple through still primordial skies? Or is there only darkness, a rumbling void that comes to swallow all we never knew to ask, about the world above?” I want…
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