10-year anniversary_Finding the Light_The Better Clock_The Dark Comes Closer
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10-year anniversary
Jack pushed the door open, stumbling in. He drunkenly fumbled for the lights, then he gave up. What did it matter anyway?It was dark in the apartment but even in his drunken haze he knew the way. Five steps forward and you’re in the kitchen. Five more and you’re in the lounge. Two steps left, three more forward and…“Ouch!”Maybe drunken steps are different. Longer maybe? Or maybe it’s the wrong apartment. Jack fumbled around, found a switch and flipped it.The lights flickered on.“Hmm” he mumbled. He was in the kitchen. The halos of light bounced off the stone benchtop and the appliances. They u...
Finding the Light
TW: suicide, sexual assault Rebecca reminisced about what her life had been, what she had done, what she had left and for a few minutes contemplated if this was her only choice, her best choice, if this would bring her finally peace...light.. she closed her eyes, released her grip from the rails, spread her arms like wings, and jumped.Rebecca remembered being so shy and introverted as a small child. She would hide behind her mother at the sight of anyone coming near her whether it'd be an aunt saying hello or another child wanting to play. She didn't like school very much as she didn't have fr...
The Better Clock
Rick woke up, ready to get to class, but saw that his clock had stopped. The batteries had died.He found some spare batteries but had to fight the clock’s battery compartment door to get it open. He chided himself for not spending the extra five dollars forwww.onedoor.cc the other clock that had a plug-in cord. “Cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap,” he told himself.After he got the battery door open, he still had to fidget to remove the old batteries and put in the new ones. His mind wandered and he thought, “Maybe the clock is fine and the real problem is that time has stopped.” He laughed at h...
The Dark Comes Closer
Riley stares at her mother as the morning officially begins. Some people would signal these things with an alarm clock while others maybe await its arrival with the passage of the sun. Riley waits for her mother to plug in the coffee maker and it doesn’t officially count until her mother receives the daily shock from the dilapidated outlet. Dennis says that exposure to that much electricity is going to kill her one of these days but Riley’s seen people in this town go through worse and still walk away alive. Why, they say old man Tuner’s been struck by lightening three times which is way wors...