Stories tagged with "sleep"

  • Five things: And sleep. Inspired by text

    Going to bed seems like a pretty basic thing, but people prepare a lot for it. They change their clothes, and wash their face…

  • Awake Inspired by a photo

    Drool spattered down the intersecting blues and greens of Michael’s flannel shirt. He raised his arm, awkwardly wiping his mo…

  • Lay Me Down In Sheets Of Linen Inspired by text

    Sassy tucked Becca into bed moments after calming her down. The waves of tears ceased, but she hadn’t said a word in quite so…

  • Why can't I sleep?

    The section of my ceiling directly covering my bed, has 46,357 “popcorns.”
    I know, because every night, as the rest of the wo…

  • Backhand Fury: uselessness' PRECISE MANEUVERS Challenge Inspired by text

    In an instant, though an instant too late, the red haze of rage cleared. I could see.

    My arm hung in an arc before me, grace…

  • Further From The Truth Inspired by text

    I had waited for almost a week and a half.
    Waiting, listening just trying to grasp a moment of some sort of truth in this tra…

  • Experience

    It was morning. I had to open my eyes, I thought, but today was different. Somebody had quieted the birds. The sunlight again…

  • Just A Dream Inspired by text

    In her dream she saw James. She reached out to him but he was too far. Slowly he was walking away, with a sad look. She reali…

  • Questions After THE Kiss Inspired by text

    Ernest knows his life has changed for the better, no more rooftops for him. A simple kiss has opened his world to so much hap…

  • The Crash or Gun fire Mature