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Some hearts are like dark bedrooms, all greyscale and silence. Hers was a canopy bed with parabolic curtains on every post. The bed is soft. When you lay down you sink into it, deeper, deeper. Yo...

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Sleeping against the window like there’s something I forgot Your heart, a subsonic chest gem, puh, puh pahhhh, we’re all dying, piece by piece, with every thud We’re all living life in every brea...

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I woke up sweating. I had been having the same dream every night for a week. In the dream I had just gotten off of work and was walking down the white-walled hallways of my apartment complex when...

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I'm working on this....I can't get it to go where I want it to go. I'm hoping sleep brings me around to a place that I'd like it to be. ==================================================== In ...

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...of many things. I'm grumbly. I know I don't have a good reason to be. I'm a liar, I have a good reason to be, but I don't want to admit that I'm going to miss you. It would concede too many ...

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She looked at her watch, turning her wrist. I could see the white of her palm. “It’s time to go,” she said. We both stood up, the chairs beneath us sliding back against the tile. We stepped o...

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“I’m sorry I make you feel guilty.” I looked at Jennifer as she turned to look out the restaurant window. Her medium-length brown hair turned with her. “No, it’s okay. It’s not a big deal, neve...

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Sometimes I think and ruin the things I like. It’s easy to enjoy something then become too technical and focused on a given goal or perfect execution that you lose the enjoyment that you were the...

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I'm smoking again. I do it too much. I don't even need you to remind me. Any time is too much Bree used to tell me when she was still around. She isn't anymore, but half the time I light up I sti...

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The air was profound that night as I breathed it in. It was two-twenty in the morning and I could see fate written in the lines of darkness that filled my room. It was empty and cold. I could hav...

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Last night I had a dream I was laying down in my backyard. In this dream I was watching the trees as they swayed back and forth. In this dream you were fire-born; your hair had a streak of red as...

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He couldn’t handle the interaction anymore, so he left. He shut down his computer, walked through the dining room, the kitchen and got into the bathroom. He stripped off his clothes and let them ...

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I went out for a walk today. The birds were twittering and the sun was slowly beginning to rise, though the streetlamps were all still glowing. In the past I would probably have been struck by th...

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He went outside to read. He was about to finish the book he was currently reading, so he snapped up another to start in case he did finish while he was outside. He didn't really know long he'd be...

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Evie and I were in the process of breaking up. We'd been together for a few years. I thought things were going well but, hey, apparently I missed something. The complaint of women all over, I sup...

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For Lana =================================== I met her in the sea. I had had a thoughtful day and decided to go swimming. The ocean has always been good for that, for me. So I scooped up a to...

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You're just sitting there. Maybe leaning back a little. Maybe with a blanket across your legs. It begins with an 'uhn' that becomes a drone of N's that fly around the room. It is an airplane fl...

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I was completely naked. She was, too. I stood behind her with my hands on her hips. Slowly I grazed the back of her neck with my lips, kissing here, there. Over her spine and to the left, downwar...

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I had been feeling trapped in myself all day. Work, family, the world in general, it was all just stress. It's normal, I told myself, everyone has days like this. The idea was supposed to reassur...

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I slip and slide through life just trying to get a grip on the rail, grasping in the dark finding nothing. I walked for a long time on the roads outside my home. The sky was dark, the sort of nig...

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I dreamed I was sitting on the ground in a grassy field. I was underneath a large oak tree and it covered me with shade. Next to me was a woman in a chair. I was sitting at her feet. There was so...

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When I was younger I had a friend down at my grandmother’s house. She was only a twenty-minute drive from my house and I spent time there pretty often. I was 11. Even back then I got along better...

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Hi. I'm HalcyonGlaze from OD if anyone remembers me from there. It took me a while, over a year I think (?) to get back to writing publically. For a bit I stopped completely. I eventually found a...

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