Old Soul_What You Aren't Taught_Never Judge a Book_The Makeover
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Old Soul
Can you hear me?I remember being reborn a thousand times.In the between-times, and at the very start and end of a life, the memories are strong. I remember the warmth of the sun on my crumpled wings as they unfold for one brilliant bright day of flight. I relive the elation of the chase and the sinking of my teeth into the throat of my prey- what a joy it is to satisfy physical hunger. I recall the agony of being prey, because of course, all things must balance out in the end. My heart has pumped cold blood through sinuous coils and thumped its warm-blooded rhythm from ocean depths.Like you, I...
What You Aren't Taught
She met the new day's sun with tired contempt. In one heavy sigh, she fell the rain from her many limbs, scattering the birds to sky and the worms to earth and the squirrels onto her sisters and the owls briefly out of sleep and the deer out of calm and then it was quiet. Save for the screeching of some little one she thought sounded alone. She wanted to sound out to the voice. She wanted to scream with it. But she remained still and quiet and before the guilt built she turned her attention to her sisters that had forever been an arms length away from her. She had once found solace in the pres...
Never Judge a Book
There is always someone who gets picked on in life. When I was at school it was Jeremy Longbottom. He was a mountain of a guy, ginger hair and freckles. His teeth stuck out way beyond his lip and consequently he couldn’t pronounce his ‘L’s so if you asked him to say ‘lovely lollies’ he would end up saying ‘wovely wallies’…much to the amusement of all the kids gathered around, who found it extremely funny no matter how many times we made him say it. We were all so unfair to him. But we were just all kids. Jeremy Longbottom had another problem that led to him being laughed at…he was crossed e...
The Makeover
Dell Hastings sat on stool in the dark room. The single naked bulb overhead offered a weak light that illuminated his features. Everything else remained in shadow.Dell smiled. He'd once been considered handsome. His smiles provoked warm feelings in others. But now?They three most obvious scars on Dell's face you could see from across a banquet hall. They looked like giant, flesh toned centipedes had taken residence there. One ran down from his left temwww.onedoor.ccple, across his eye and ended near his nose. A second ran a jagged course across his forehead. The third crossed both his upper and lower lips ...