My Lucid Reality

Brightest Dawn

The dawn feels brighter when the night’s been so dark.  Or, that’s what I kept telling myself as the stars gasped against a sky shushed by the whimper of ever present street lights and all night liquor stores.  There was no driving out of town, no chance to escape that star crushing murmur, I have [...]

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The Path – Update (or, Part 2)

I stood, confident in my moment of judgment, not sure what to expect, but knowing that I wouldn’t have made it this far if I couldn’t take it.  The glimmering white ground surrounding us caused my eyes to squint against the light, wisps of cloud floated around my feet, the ground feeling similar to standing [...]

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The Path

Gravel grinds against rock, a guttural deep sound, threatening, and unnerving; what was worse was how my feet slide from underneath me, the path wasn’t steep, but in now way was it level enough to give room for sliding.  To my left a cliff, grey, and in no way soft, and to my right I [...]

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Elusive Sleep

Her voice beckoned, calling, as seductive as spring after a long winter, as desirous as water in a drought, eyes looked out from the darkness, pulling me closer to her, like a puppy I came to her, wanting, yearning, every heart beat begging for her attention, as my hand touched her, she was gone, and [...]

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The Storm

Between my fingers the gravel scraped against itself, the pressure of my hand squeezing then running my thumb back and forth against this remnant of earth, finding a small amount of comfort in the habitual worried movements.  Thunder cried out in the distance as Zeus lit the ominous clouds that rolled over the ocean like [...]

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