Tag: winter
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Who Needs To Be Revived
It is spring that revives, even as the world begins to claw its way out from under the suffocating blanket of so many things better left unsaid why in fact don’t we all just stay in the cold in the numb a little longer and maybe that will let us go to sleep for good.…
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Backstory, 1
The snow crunched under his booted feet as he ran, breath raw and steaming. A hundred thousand questions, but he couldn’t put any to words, not yet, not while they were still close enough behind him. They’d loose the dogs soon, and he had to get to the water, had to, his life depended on…
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Inevitable
Somewhere in me, a great ocean has iced over. The ice itself is brittle, and if pressed, a great tide of tears will rush forth. It threatens to drown all who are near. I will not cry, I promise them. I will not cry, I promise myself. It is futile; the world is more cruel…
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I Keep Hearin’ You
“It’s me,” comes the voice on the recording, rough and shaky. “I know I said I wouldn’t call. I know. But m’pretty sure y’don’care one way’r’th’other, specially if’s’versus not callin and endin up in a dumpster.” Her voice is alternately at a comfortable rasp, and a high, thready thing that sounds halfway like panic. “S’cold…
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I fear the season’s change for us
I get a chill every night these days and I can feel it in my bones. I can’t escape the ice of it, the thing that comes home and shrieks in the wind, this winter of our relationship, where it is so obvious that you are in love with her, not me, and because of…