Stories tagged death

Cory's Carousel

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There was an ownership about the makeshift carnival. There was a therapy there.

Numberplate

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After she died, clearing out her safe deposit box at the local bank, I found more numberplates.

Calluses

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My Grandma caressed my sleeping Grandfather’s feet as we sat in his hospital room after hours.

Confession

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Kneeling, he listens to her labored breath.

Mid - Loss

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Mid-Dawn//Mid-Dusk -- Wait for me.

Three

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Fireflies light up the darkness.

Movies and Songs

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But I am quite sure, in my loneliness, there is nothing that aches inside me more, than a desire to persist.

Opening Chapter from Mother's Beach

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He would be visible floating in the liquid nitrogen in the Plexiglas chamber, but the mechanisms for his maintenance would be silent. The building's electricity supplied power, but in the event of a power loss, an emergency generator would take over.

shades of a young miss zorita

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When you sit on your Mama’s porch with your friend’s eight foot boa constrictor around your neck think: “Long lines"...You tense, he tenses. You freak out, you’re dead. He’s not a kitten, OK? He’s not a puppy. He’s not your Mama’s love “surprise.”

shades of a young miss zorita

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When you are in the grip of the snake it helps you are comfortable being sexual, so don't ever let someone talk you out of it.

iterations of my brother

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In my dream, his head is pricked with needles as in the practice of acupuncture. I ask him how he is doing, what death is like. He tells me it is terrible. He cries. I wake and I am not comforted.

it's just death, so what

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no one has managed to escape the certain pairing between death and a stone

shades of a young miss zorita

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So ride it out, dear sister, do not move. Ride it out and lengthen your sweet gorgeous lines.

The Bravo Dome

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not even one molecule of oxygen wants anything to do with her

The Bravo Dome

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not even one molecule of oxygen wants anything to do with her