My Lucid Reality

Time

Time, a friend, and an Enemy. I watch the clock as it tick tocks the hours away.  Never enough time in the day, never the hours I want to spend doing everything that suits my interest before the hours call back to me.  I curse time, the enemy who forces me from the present and takes [...]

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The Job a New Beginning

The room was dark, black billowing darkness crept through the hallways as if alive, hunting for the same thing the rest of us longed for, escape.  I sat at my desk watching the darkness enfold the hallways, encircle the chairs, it peeked around the corner of my cubicle before entering.  I sat in stunned silent [...]

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The Demon Came to Call

I didn’t mean to leave a cliffhanger after my vampire part 1 post, it’s almost funny how the subject captured my imagination, but more than that it took me to the brink of darkness. Standing at the brink of darkness my body was open to the attack of some kind of nasty little demon.  I fought [...]

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Halloween – The Vampire, Part 1

At night darkness is one of the few constants, and this night was the epitome of a dark night.  The air was heavy with a rain that just wouldn’t come, fog was rolling in, and clouds blocked out the stars, in the distance street lights were suffocating.  I tried a whistle, but after a few [...]

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Then The Smell of Fall Punched Me

Through my day I encounter smells, some small some blatant. Not all smells are pleasant. Yesterday was “cook things in the microwave” day at work, through the day the smell of pasta accosted me, followed by an inedible hot pocket aroma,the buttery smell of popcorn won the event saturating the office for the rest of [...]

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