I Wish You Got Your Way_Winter Awakening_Oceanside_Family
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I Wish You Got Your Way
I step forward, my heart racing. I’ve had to do this before - not too long ago, actually. But even if I did it a million times, it would still hurt. It would hurt a million times more than the last time.This is something I hate doing.But everyone has to do it. I wish I was an exception, but what makes me any more important? Living without loss can’t really be living, can it? Anyway, there’s no point in wishing. Wishing is something you do when you have no hope. If you have no hope, you have no hope. Wishing is an excuse.I feel tears in my eyes, and I open my mouth, hesitant. I don’t know if i...
Winter Awakening
I woke to a knocking near my head and a mouth cracked dry. My bones popped and creaked as I stretched for the first time in months. It was great to be out of that cramped coffin.“Good evening lazy pants, you hungry?”I nodded to Jules, my brother born 80 years before me, but my best friend.A tickle ran across my face, which I seized with my thumb and index finger. I crunched the spider in between my teeth. The blood of arachnids was never as tasty as those from mammals.“So winter’s come already? Seems like just yesterday we shut in for sleep.” I say grabbing the iron door of our long abandoned...
Oceanside
Mia didn't want to visit her grandfather. He was always called 'eccentric' by the adults, with a conspiratorial glance between them. She wasn't 6 anymore, she knew what they meant. He was a recluse. A reject. A weirdo. But her dad was on a work trip, and her mom wantewww.onedoor.ccd her out of the house - "you're turning 16, you need to know what it's like to be independent". It was hard for her not to roll her eyes at that - independence was the whole problem; Her mom wanted her to do everything by herself until Mia wanted to go to the movies, or have a sleepover.The train was crowded when she climbed on, ...
Family
Humans are bizarre.Even from creation they have such a strange life. They need support to do what most humans do, even need to be taught how to speak. I don’t quite understand why they aren’t given language skills when they’re created. They create this high pitch wailing to signal they need something, like food or attention. I can’t commutate with these tiny humans because I don’t think their software is as powerful as mine. It reminds me of when I tired to speak to the fridge. I was ignored.Humans need other humans too. They need to be touched by them, such as when they greet each other they ...