Yellow Line, White Line

by [pens&feathers]

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I’m looking out at the five o’clock winter. The retreating sunlight pulls the yellow and orange away from my car window, leaving things cold and in sorry shades of blue.

Yellow line, white line. Harsh electric glow of headlights on pavement and the steady hum of the radio in the backround of my mind.

So many years ago, or maybe it was hours, we drove on this road in a different car, listening to a different song. We were singing then, together and out of tune, but together nontheless. Windows rolled down, even though everyone told us it was too cold for that.

I never told you, but every night I drove home from your house, I hit all the green lights and I took it for some kind of sign.

Yellow line, white line. Red light. World comes to a stop and I’m holding my breath for you.

Your house is empty now, and I am a shell of myself, driving down our empty road, looking through a window that no longer belongs to you.

Tires beat out a steady rhythm, like a metronome.

Or a heartbeat.

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Average Reader Rating: 5.0 stars out of 5

  1. Yellow Line, White Line

    emma jo_234's Buddy Icon emma jo_234

    Posted 9 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Oh my. Everything that you write is so poetic and so pretty. Your words flow like the sea. I especially loved the line, “Yellow line, white line. Red light. World comes to a stop and I’m holding my breath for you.” And the last two lines, too.
    Your writing could rock me to sleep like the waves.

  2. Yellow Line, White Line

    Stovohobo's Buddy Icon Stovohobo

    Posted 9 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Your way of writing never ceases to capture me. Astounding.

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    Storykeeper of Fae's Buddy Icon Storykeeper of Fae

    Posted 9 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Whenever you have a story on the board, I have to read it because of the beautiful way you have of turning a story in to a lullaby. Agreed with my fellow Ficleteers. Astounding.
    LoA

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    someday_93's Buddy Icon someday_93

    Posted 9 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Me too, I always immediately click on them when I see you’ve written a new story, you are truly an amazing writer, and this is another example.
    LoA

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