Tag Archives: love

Reach

Drowning. Going down. The last light in the top of the world going out. Reaching up, one hand, fingertips slipping below the surface. Away, away, remembering the taste of laughter.

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To Taste Starlight

You hold me each time when we decide as we decide to go in the fashion we choose. I twine my fingers with yours and we tell one another stories of threadbare memory, trying to keep alive ages long past, … Continue reading

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Before I forget

Before I forget, let me say that I occasionally want to reach through the nothing but time, distance, air, electrons that separate us, and grab hold of you by the throat. I want to pull you back to me, and … Continue reading

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Paid For

It was three days later, while Xand was tending to and being tended by the gaunt, pale, exhausted Master Tynan, that a courier from Master Jack arrived. An armed courier. The man said to Tynan, “My Master insists on another … Continue reading

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Give Me Strength

“You misunderstand,” the redhead girl tells him, but he is not listening, especially because no one in the world, in their right mind, would ever tell the Emperor that he was mistaken, that he was about to do something that … Continue reading

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