Small Flames_THE EVE WAITING, WHEN TIME SEEMS TO BE RUNNING OUT_It is not Easy_Sestra
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Small Flames
Sunlight streams through the church's lattice work windows, pale and dull. Alys sells the last of the blackberry jam and slips the six spinel fires it was bought with into the nearly full bag at her hip, its pink surfaces half-burning to the touch. Newly crystallized then.She glances at the back of the woman who'd given it to her. A girl really, wrapped in bright purple linen and walking alone with hunched shoulders. Alys breathes harshly through her nose as she turns away. "Do you have to go back?" Reben asks as he hugs her, pressing his face into her side. "You already know the answer, my l...
THE EVE WAITING, WHEN TIME SEEMS TO BE RUNNING OUT
THE EVE WAITING , WHEN TIME SEEMS TO BE RUNNING OUT Alina sighed, closing the suitcase she had just finished preparing. She was about to leave for Cortina, the mountain location where she had decided to celebrate the end of the year and the arrival of the New Year. It wouldn’t take more than two hours to get to Cortina. This year she didn’t feel like taking a long trip to celebrate, but indeed to live THAT PASSAGE OF TIME, from December31st to January 1st, that she had always felt like a different time from the time of the all other days of the year. THAT TIME, the time between the year whic...
It is not Easy
I have always struggle. My life is a series of challenges that never ends. Every time I pick myself up, something will be there to put me back down. This does not bother me. I have long accepted this as a part of my life. Yet, the people around me, those who says they cares about me, those who says that they want the best for me, those who encowww.onedoor.ccuraged me to go for the stars, cannot seem to accept this my views on this. They never let me give up, even on a lost cause. They always told me that I can be anything that I want to be, as long as I try. They always say that it is “Easy” for me. How ca...
Sestra
(NOTE: This story has Russian characters. So... there are two unfamiliar words used. Their meanings have been given in the comments below!) It had been twenty-four years since she’d last seen it, but the place looked exactly the same. Natalya was found shuffling uncertainly along the edge of the mansion. Would she be able to do it? Her feet carried her away back to the main gate. She absolutely couldn’t do it. Never in her life did she even dream of doing it. Then what was she doing here now? Her rare, green eyes hovered tensely for a moment near the fountain and swept in the entire scene, dec...