White Noise

by Culture Shock w/ Mike Schwartz

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Marguerite won’t stop crying. I can feel her body shaking next to me. She doesn’t want me to hold her. She keeps pulling away.

John is shouting. His voice is getting mixed in with the others. So many new voices. Who are these people?

Someone said something about a gun. Marguerite keeps mumbling that we are going to die. I never imagined myself dying like this. Not even knowing it’s going to happen. Where is it going to come from?

I always just thought I’d die of old age. Not wake up one day. Eternal silence accompanying my eternal dark.

This is so much worse. Knowing it could happen at any second. But not from where or whom.

My legs are going weak. I try to take steps back, searching with my hands for anything to grip onto. I feel the wall meet my back as I slink down along it.

I feel so cold. Dark and cold. The buzzing in my head is blocking out all other sounds. I have no sense of what is going on around me. Dark and cold and silent.

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Average Reader Rating: 5.0 stars out of 5

  1. White Noise

    THX 0477's Buddy Icon THX 0477

    Posted 4 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Okay, I may have strayed into telenovella land again, but a sequel is up. I love both your and Nouvelle’s shots here of real, raw, human emotion into the story, which is kind of a neat ebb and flow. Earlier we got to see Renard’s inner workings while everyone else ran around, and now he’s more in the action while the others become introspective. It’s almost like we planned it or something! Awesome.
    LoA

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    emma jo_234's Buddy Icon emma jo_234

    Posted 4 months ago

    What I like a lot about this series is that everything flows together, all the stories come naturally to the reader even though we’ve got three people writing them. Like THX said, almost like you planned it. Magnificent.
    LoA

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    Nouvelle Bardot's Buddy Icon Nouvelle Bardot

    Posted 4 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    yeah, you’re right thx. and this was marvellous, it really meshed well with marguerite’s. they’re really on the same level here. i really love how he keeps thinking about death, its beautiful

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