A Fly on the Wall_The Castaways_A Quiet Night Out_Emptyness
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A Fly on the Wall
Old friends. When I hear someone use this exprewww.onedoor.ccssion, I imagine age - old relationships, familiarity, and love. I imagine it’s when your oldest and dearest can finish your sentences or when your oldest and dearest intimately know the details of your life, and you theirs. It’s when you don’t have to speak, and they know what you’re thinking. It’s when you can laugh about experiences shared together and no one else in the room knows why you’re laughing. It’s like the private language of twins. It’s feeling secure and safe in the relationship, certain they will always have your back.I feel like a...
The Castaways
It has been more than thirty years, but looking back, it feels like only yesterday.It all began back in the late 1980s. It was my graduating year at Madison High School, and I had a feeling that it was going to be “my year”.Growing up, I was known as the loner, the geek, the outcast, and the nobody. Those who did not know me, turned their noses up at me. Those who did know me, but sought acceptance from the “cool kids”, were two-faced during school hours. Then there were my true friends. The small group of people who chose to like me for who I was no matter who was around. That is who this st...
A Quiet Night Out
The kettle hissed and clicked, the bubbling inside subsiding as the heating elements turned off. With a tut of frustration at the stereo, Tony left it and went to the kitchen. He poured the freshly-boiled water into his tea mug, inhaling the wonderful camomile fragrance as he did.“Perfect,” he said to himself as he replaced the kettle. Humming a little tune he dug out some biscuits and put them on a plate, before taking them and the tea into the next room. On the way past he headbutted the light-switch, sending the kitchen into darkness.Now the only light came from the reading lamp that stood ...
Emptyness
This is my worst nightmare, left alone with no one here in my life. The one person that I let in completely just vanished. It is like they never meant what they said or cared about it. We always talked about having a friendship to fight for. Clearly I was the only one that felt that way. My best friend, the one I trusted and loved more than anyone or anything else. Me and Dave met in October of last year through a mutual friend Juan. It was pretty awkward at first but when our friend left we got to talking and got to know each other until the next morning. We continued to do that for three day...