Tag: night
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Circle of a Day
The rising and setting of the sunIs constant in its pathAs is the constant of day and nightand life and death Sometimes we have a patternThat we follow We call it a routineBut it’s not always something we can control It’s these changes that can make the day or break the dayWhen challenges approachCan you ... -
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Edge At Night
At the edge I stand while daring the glass that lies flat and shiny before me, a sheet reflecting the moon that lies bright in the night in the woods crippled with crickets behind me. Boots that tripped on rocks and twigs all through the day that I spent wading through the branches that snapped ... -
Cicadas
“Sometimes I reach out into the sky wishing that maybe just this once the laws of reality suspend and I finally touch a star,” the woman with thick glasses lazily sighed to herself in the back alley. Her arms displayed stories sketched with scar tissue; her features blurred her age to be somewhere between twenty-five ... -
Home Visit: Part 2
Read PART 1 here ~~ I was lying in bed, listening to the whistle of wind against the side of the house. It had always been a comforting sound, and one of the few good things to come from the winters in New England. They had become colder every year since my husband had ... -
Home Visit: Part 1
Thursday was when I had my weekly home visits for blood work. For twelve years, my flesh had been trying to poison me, but by the grace of God, Dr. Hubert caught it in time. Who knew type II diabetes would actually kill you? After 71 years, the only way to keep the up in ... -
Date Gone Wrong
Meet Andrei here. Read about his first day | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 He was tall, 6’2” and he wore ripped jeans, a white t-shirt with a worn leather jacket. This young man stumbled into the nightclub and he moved like he was underwater. No balance and he likely barely heard a thing, but the bass ... -
Day 5
Meet Andrei here. Read about his first day | Day 2 | Day 3| Day 4| Most days had gone by like clockwork. Show up. Work. Rinse and repeat. Andrei kept it cool and played it safe. Today was his final day shift. What a relief! And tonight, was drinks with Lizzie. Are people ‘stoked’ about things? Or would that be ...
