Just a shell_The Precious Water of Desert Tears_Car Crushing Canines_THE BLACK ROSE
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Just a shell
James was a simple man, yet he had one thing about him. He seemed lifeless, without emotions. Yet, to the untrained eye, this is who he was at the core. People were met with this calm demeanor when they thought they would make him angry. When one of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, death, had taken someone close to him. It almost seemed natural to him not to show grief. James was a man of little words. However, his calm demeanor was often enough for anyone to understand if there were any alterations in his voice to hold one’s tongue. Though subtle, his words hit like a sledgehammer if pus...
The Precious Water of Desert Tears
Eau had been trailing the woman through the desert for six hours now. She was exquisitely sensitive to her weariness and great thirst yet felt helpless to assist her. She stopped when she stopped, stumbled when she did, lay down beside her when her legs gave way and she couldn’t walk any more. Eau had tried hunkering down in the dry, baked river beds hoping she would see the muddy, life giving puddles this formed. Eau had floated above her and opened her pores but the woman staggered on, unable to see or feel the cool, misty drops of life giving rain. Eau had even pressed her face against the...
Car Crushing Canines
“We’re running out of time!” Lee screamed as she grabbed her friend, Addy’s hand. The two young women ran as fast as they could through the city streets not looking behind them. They knew what was ahead of them and behind them. The morning air was full of what was happening and what was going to happen. In one day the world that they lived in changed. The air was thicker, the tree leaves were browner, the grass was wetter. People were running and screaming in the streets. There was a new enemy that nobody ever saw coming. An enemy they all had been living with for years. They were almost in ...
THE BLACK ROSE
THE BLACK ROSE ( for now….perhaps DRIED ROSE? WITHERED ROSE?)When they were ( had been) schoolmates( classmates) Flora had jet very black hair and a very white, milk - white complexion, her cheeks reddened with emotion or cold. Her mouth, little, almost heart - shaped, and fleshy was very red. Now that she too, like Miriam, was in her sixties, she ( Miriam) would have expected ( would expect) to see her old friend if not with white hair, as Miriam had, with hair dyed a light color than her own pitch ( deep) black. But oh, now that Flora was in front of her she could see that she had the same d...