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Tumbling out of the aether, landing in another age, a place in time, but a memory removed from the beginning. Middle age, late middle age, old, measures of time, she spied their shadows if she looked over her shoulder, forgetting … Continue reading
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Arriving Late
No adoring admirers at her feet, no free pass in her grasp, rather, experience in her head, a past she understood at last. She’d envied those whose life paths presented early, though many took dreadful detours, burning up their lives … Continue reading
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Stones in the Stream
They each meant so much to her, pieces of her heart, stones in the stream that was her life. There came the moment downstream, in the future where she waited, when they didn’t arrive. Upon the rock centered in the … Continue reading
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Wrong Question
“What’s happened to you?” he asked, without looking her way, while avoiding the gray. If he knew what she knew about herself he wouldn’t have to ask for the first time. If he’d taken a moment to know the person … Continue reading
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Awakening in Twilight
Her years passing time, an awakening in twilight transformed, beholding the silver landscape anew, examining the dwindling hours. It was a reimagined future, where starting was starting in furthermore, watching the despondent around her chase a daybreak they wouldn’t catch. … Continue reading
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A Spector Waiting
She’d seen them, born before death, yet trapped in a stasis, their vicarious lives forgetting to urge them to step outside. If learning was growing, if growing was living, they were crystalizing before her eyes, orchestrating a tragedy one day … Continue reading
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Fantasical World
Once upon the glimmer of a fading thought, she caught a glimpse of the dream once thought gone forever in a life where her past self believed she had eternity. If improbably glimpsing the dream was a momentary reality, then … Continue reading
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Where Snow Angels Hadn’t Yet Tread
Sparkling on the snow of another morning’s light were crystals of hope awaiting her hand to hold. She knelt in the white where snow angels hadn’t yet tread and grasped the life opportunity she thought she’d lost. Breathing in the … Continue reading
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Other People’s Memories
She’d tried it for awhile, living on other people’s memories, other children playing in their yards, other parents holding their children tight. Those other recollections, though, carried her to other places best avoided, until she recognized the self-deceit they planted … Continue reading
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Reinventing Herself
In a night when the air was crisp, the moon full, and the leaves gathering she saw her future, not because it’d appeared, but because she’d made it happen. It was the end, not of an aging life, but a … Continue reading
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