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She hurried through the streets. “Please let there be time,” she whispered to herself as she got closer to her destination.
“What are you doing?” The voice floated through the air toward her, but she didn’t stop. She knew what he wanted. She started to run.
“I see how it is.” The voice came again, and someone stepped into her path. A guy around her age wearing a dark overcoat and dark glasses wa...
She stood, stone still, as warm spring air caressed her skin. The early morning chill had long been burned away as the mid morning sun crept higher in the sky. The peace was stifling, the sweet-smelling spring grass clung, cloying to her skin.
They’d been so close. She’d been so close. Slowly, she retraced the steps she’d raced hours before. Moving slowly, the waist high grass no longer tore at h...
The pastures behind the barn,
Where the ground is too wild to farm
Stands grasses taller than me
They stretch farther than I can see
Last summer was wild
Like the weeds in that field
Parties after parties
There was sex, drinks, and pills
In the barn before the field
Peer pressure ruled with fear
Innocence was lost
In preparation for freshman year
I lost something on that day
Not in tthe barn h...
•TW: suicidal stuff •
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NO SNEAK PEEKS
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I’m almost gone
Rotting away
For you all to see
Does it matter in the end
Rotting away
Soon to disappear
Does it matter in the end
When you can’t see me anymore
Soon to dissapear
The knife’s edge is close
When you can’t see me anymore
What would you do
The knifes edge is close
Quivering at my neck
What would...
I retreated from the Pillar to survey the battlefield in the sky. Scores of Chimeras raced through the sky, their breastplates glinting in the sun, carrying spears and swords. Their snakelike tails whipped back and forth menancingly.
At their center was a huge figure wearing a gold crown on his lion's head, snarling and sneering, directing the Chimeras. I guesed he was Yaldabaoth, their leader, an...
My shoes are muddied now with what was once a rolling green field. The last time I was here the sunshine greeted me like you did before you said you had to go to Europe. You’d said for me to imagine it like you were going on vacation. However, time has passed and I haven’t received word from you. Not even a letter or a phone call. Honestly, my legs and chest feel tighter now that you haven’t come ...
We are the afterlife
The ones who float through the sky
We are the gods
The ones who control the time
We are the suns
The ones who shine across the village
We are the birds
The ones who sing a song to sing along
We are the die
The ones who roll to win
We are the crimes
The ones who run for freedom
We are the animals
The ones who live off themselves
We are the people
The ones who con...
My head spun as the Vimana rolled, nasuea rising in my gut. I shut my eyes and pushed the controls until I reached a point of balance. I looked and saw that we were hovering in the highest reaches of the stratosphere, open space all around us.
Orlando put his hands on my shoulders. "Scorpio, I've figured out who those Chimeras are. It's Yaldabaoth and the angels who serve him."
I took a breath and...
With delicate movement, she lifts the gem from it’s padded case, lets the light from her dimly lit room dance on it’s surface. There’d been nothing she found more addictive than a diamond’s shimmer, a flawless reward only right for her quintessential work.
Around her neck, she felt, had been the only resting place right for such a sublime piece. Her intuition alone, is one trustworthy, and Iris h...
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