Stories tagged emotion

Story to Forget

998998 views00 comments00 favs

The white Boeing 747, all three hundred and sixty eight seats of it, prepared to depart from Johannesburg Airport. Mild conditions on a clear flight path coupled with the soothing voice of the first officer didn't allay my unease. I offered a friendly nod to the…

Victor Krowchuck Gets Dressed

13041304 views44 comments33 favs

He puts on a choir of prepositions, 142 adjectives, 317 ramifications of cotton... and 177 semicolons engorged with cabbage.

A Physician Bearing Witness

11591159 views00 comments00 favs

Human, you said, Comfort me, at this the end, Life so long, and smiles so short, What will lie beyond the bend?

Dissection (II)

12021202 views22 comments22 favs

She wields the blade.

A Glimpse of Love

113113 views11 comment11 fav

I know that my Butterfly loves me. I've known this for a long time. There are moments though, when you see a person whom is very important to you, as the embodiment of love, and that moment burns itself deep and permanently into your memory. I can remember it today as…

Boundaries

10261026 views11 comment11 fav

Hands and fingers feeling down Cross the boundaries I laid

A Vignette on Fathers

818818 views11 comment11 fav

On 3rd when you looked at your 389th happy New Year greeting, you autotyped “same to you”. No one on whatsapp knew. At week 17 of IVF therapy when you and your new bride could do no more; doctor Mehdi said neither could he. At 5 minutes left, you mi

Waves of Memory

905905 views33 comments22 favs

"Sometimes things just don’t go as planned. It doesn’t mean anyone is to blame - It just is."

Wading

617617 views99 comments66 favs

Through feeling her life story, I understood mine, more,