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• Accursed Memory, Blessed Salvation

  by g2 (la pianista irlandesa) 25 days ago

  _Lex had shoved me roughly into the safe. Just before he closed the door on me, he muttered to someone outside, who came in i…

• Humble Salvation

  by THX 0477 4 months ago

  The room sparsely furnished, a thin mattress on a makeshift cot sits only inches from an uneven wooden table for one. A metal…

• Journal of the Disheartened Hero [OTOC diary challenge]

  by THX 0477 5 months ago

  November 22, 1944

  Another train left today, headed across the border towards that Hell men created. I should be proud, happy…

• Salvation or Something Else

  by THX 0477 6 months ago

  I’d hate to be thought of as prideful, but I was feeling pretty good about myself. My ill-fated high jump over the fence had …

• Salvation Wtih Luscious Curves

  by THX 0477 6 months ago

  Wingtips, despite their deceptively swift nomenclature, are not built for speed. Fortunately, wearing your pants somewhere ha…

• The Word What Did Him In

  by THX 0477 7 months ago

  It was a cold September evening, unseasonably cold, I’d add. The town, the whole town, met down by the new barn, the one th…

• Your Own Beat

  by Stovohobo 8 months ago

  The cold, bitter wind tossed the man’s locks to and fro, dancing a cold, bitter death waltz with them. The frothing waters on…

• The Morning of the Race

  by THX 0477 9 months ago

  The morning of the race was hot and humid. Old Dr. Pritchitt wiped sweat from his brow. He’d delivered so many babies, brough…

• Found

  by YodaOnCrack 10 months ago

  And there I stand before you as you drift in and out of consciousness. You look up at me and smile. “Yes, it’s me,” I say, “I…

• Faith

  by YodaOnCrack 10 months ago

  You move toward a light that shifts against the sky like a ball of lava, radiating colors you’ve never before seen – oranges,...