Almost Barefoot_On the Road to Maddog_Is it just me or.._Meant to Be a Bird
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Almost Barefoot
1208 wordsRated PG; blood, gorePrompt: Set your story on (or in) a winding river.My shoe was gone.I was walking along the stream at noon when it fell in. I was trudging along, tired from lunch, kicking at all the stones in my path. One kept staying in front of me. I made a game of aiming it straight so that I could kick it again. My foot had been off one time. I had kicked it to the left. On either side of me, fields. Tall stalks of grass shoot out of them. If I cared to venture further, if I wanted to push the grass aside, then I might have found beautiful creatures. There could have been sna...
On the Road to Maddog
Karen Carnes 5475 Sarvis Avenue Waterford, MI 48327 karencarnes63@gmail.comOn the Road to Maddog By Karen Lankford-CarnesTess was hanging around her boyfriend’s music store after hours. Jim was a guitar player, she, a singer. It wasn’t an odd coupling and quite prevalent in the regional industry. She never felt anything close to passion coming from a guitar, it was her lot to date guitar players, and politely applaud their playing. This night would be different. Although the kismet and dynamics were certain to end the relationship in the near future, this night would act as a catalyst in such...
Is it just me or..
The scene unraveling was oddly familiar, similar to the dream I had last night. This wasn't supposed to bother me because I was a mental case already, majority of the things I dreamt about came true, but this was bothering me because the end of my dream last night wasn't good and I was just about to sleep.The flickering of the lights didn't end and I was certain a blackout was coming soon, just as it was in the dream. I grabbed my phone from the bedstand and hid under my duvet, I was in the same place I was in the dream- in my room under room arrest, could today get any worse?It didn't take lo...
Meant to Be a Bird
“A bird?”“Yes. I felt like a bird.”“And you’re still going to do this?”“I have to. I know it’s crazy, but I can fly.”“You’re absolutely nuts, you know that? There is a zero percent chance you can fly just because of some silly dream you had. And there is a zero pewww.onedoor.ccrcent chance I’d be anywhere near that plane after that kind of dream.”“Well that’s you. And it was more than just a dream. I have, I don’t know, faith, I guess. It’s not like anything will happen anyway.”“Better you than me.”And so most of my conversations went with my friends and family after I told them I was making a solo skype fo...