Stories tagged with "isolation"
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My Mother's Likeness (His Only Escape)
by Saint Chuck 9 days ago
I’ve always been told that I’m the spitting image of my mother. I used to be proud of that, but now it just makes me uncomfor…
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Island Life [When I Grow Up Challenge]
by THX 0477 3 months ago
I roll out of the hammock onto warm sand. Eyes blinking in the tropical sun, I stroll into the breeze. With a smile I rap a k…
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Threshold
by Andrew Mayfield 3 months ago
A peculiar thing it is, to taste the flesh of another man. Now you may dismiss me as a lunatic or heathen and yet I must ask,...
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Happily Miserable
by VTegrity 4 months ago
My perspective is so narrow right now, I have sat alone in this room too long. It is almost impossible to think of anything b…
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The Gravity of the Situation
by PrairieSurfer 6 months ago
He strained to look up through the sunlight that pierced his gaze. There it was, or rather there THEY were. He couldn’t see t…
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Isolation [I'm in the Mode for Love Challenge]
by THX 0477 8 months ago
“It is time,” she says. Her inflection is for a question, but it’s a statement.
“I’ll help you power down,” I say, my voice …
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On Winter
by [pens&feathers] 10 months ago
I wrap the blue scarf tightly around my neck
And settle in its simple warmth
As I break through the icy puddles
In my brown b… -
Frustrated Coolidge Effect
by THX 0477 11 months ago
Day 45
The storm has kept us isolated still, and the rations are getting old. So is the company. I feel as though the life ha… -
A Sequence Isolated
by BARomero about 1 year ago
He went crazy from one note. He couldn’t get it out of his head. I think it was an A.
Henry couldn’t help but think of _Se…