Some stories come softly, like a sunset, fading in and fading out like night and day. Soft like cat's feet. Soft like breath; like voices carried for miles on the wind, caressing your ears like classical music. But some stories. Some stories, they hit you like a physical weight, like a punch in the gut. They knock the breath out of you and force words from your fingers, wring words out of your heart. They break you into a cold sweat at night, make you nervous during the day. It's a burden to hold them inside you for too long. It starts to hurt, like a dull ache at the base of your skull where the words gather. Stories like these, they weigh on you. They make your mind think in circles, always coming back to the imaginary plot that somehow seems more real than anything else in your life. Always, there's a deep heaviness on your heart. Words that stain like ink. And all the time, those stories shake you, whispering &quot;_Tell me. Tell me tell me._&quot; And so you do. Because it's just too much not to. 2008-04-21T01:21:10Z http://ficlets.com/feed/story/28144 <p>And it&#8217;s what we&#8217;re all striving for, isn&#8217;t it, to write that piece that grabs people and ignites or incites something in them.</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/28144?basename=57757 2008-04-21T01:21:10Z THX 0477 http://ficlets.com/authors/thx_0477 <p>and we whisper <em>tel me more</em><br />Good writting is an escape.. a short story just takesyou there quicker than a novel</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/28144?basename=57673 2008-04-20T22:09:59Z SKermitgorf http://ficlets.com/authors/kermitgorf <p>I was just talking about stories like this!<br />I hope you don&#8217;t mind my sequel.</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/28144?basename=57658 2008-04-20T21:28:34Z Laine P. Grey http://ficlets.com/authors/lainegrey