Tag: synchronicity
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Remember
In a hall of jade (and then it is subway tile and then it is sandstone and then it is glass) there are rooms (and then there are none and then there is one and then there are multitudes) and in at least one of those rooms there lies a woman, young (and then old…
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Wearing The Bones And Blood
His leaving was unremarked by everyone, save for the girl, who felt hollow with his going. In the other bedroom, Claire whispered “Come back,” but no one could hear her in their own dreams. Less than an hour later, however, the girl would be the first awake to hear her cry out in pain and…
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To Say Goodbye
The rain outside was lazy, not even quite drizzling down and covering the world in a freakishly thick mist, giving everything an ephemeral quality that would make most anyone simply want to curl up and get back to sleep. Not so with the blue-eyed man, who was awake in the wee hours, dressed and standing…
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She Wanted Me To Tell You
His name is Thomas and it is always Thomas unless it isn’t and unless it is something else entirely something that has always been a backandforth about clarity and light, with starry eyes. He knows this, as fiercely as he knows up is up and down is down, and even moreso, because he also knows…
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Outgoing Calls
“When I was Thomas, no, when I had Thomas, no, when Thomas spoke with my eyes, when I didn’t have any of the sneakers, he wasn’t, it was just because of the injections, did you know that Ballantine was something like a father figure but not in the sense you’re thinking of. She dreams of…