Hello David_A Place On Earth_Scorpions_Troy
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Hello David
Marjorie leaned over the cool metal bedrail and tugged the sheet up and over his gaunt shoulders. Her mind felt less foggy in the early morning hours than at twilight. The evening nurse called it Sundowners Syndrome, and it was the time of day she feared most. It was the dark time between reality and haze. Twilight meant David was disappearing into a vast oblivion she could no longer control. Theirs was a marriage meant to last a lifetime. Developing cataracts only made things worse. It was as though she were viewing life through a clouded camera lens, making it difficult to discern twww.onedoor.cche rugged...
A Place On Earth
Jerry took a sip of his triple caramel double espresso latte with chocolate sprinkles as he quietly regarded the painting before him. “Yeah, I don’t get it,” he said. Modern art continued to elude him. That was understandable. After all, it seemed to elude the humans as well. It just… lacked that certain something. What was it the poet had said? “In truth, beauty.” Or something like that? Yeah, it was something like that. But there was no beauty in it. And no truth. He’d been assistant manager at the gallery for long enough to know that most of the art that passed through these days existed s...
Scorpions
If the heat didn’t kill him, the scorpions would. Zeyr drank from his canteen. The water tasted hot and stale. Above, the blazing sun beat down on his robes, and he kept moving forward, his leather footwraps pushing into the burning sands with each step. If he hadn’t come to do a job—one that needed to be done—he would’ve avoided the region entirely. As he approached the gates, a young man raised a bow and pulled back on the string. He looked down at Zeyr from a guard tower and called to his brethren. They rushed to their positions. In seconds, a dozen men appeared with bows and throwing spear...
Troy
Troy sat at the edge of his village that night, staring up at the moon and stars. His mind was lost in the beauty of the cosmos. Suddenly, a horde of demons raced past him towards the peaceful burg that Troy called home. There was a bell in the town square that the villagers could ring during emergencies to warn the rest if the village, but Troy was too far away from the warning bell and he could never outrun the Demons back to the village anyway. Troy could only watch and listen to the screams in horror as his whole village went up in flames. Troy fell to his knees and sobbed into his hands. ...