29_The Day My Dreams Died_Season of Change_Artificial Connection
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TW: suicide Is it third of March ? Or fourth already ? I can't seem to remember it. I rummaged through my drawer looking for something , a knickknack to recall the date. I didn't have newspapers , or phone ,for that matter. A middle aged woman who had voluntarily abandoned the society didn't need to possess those. She didn't care for the world or the people . Is it March ? A tear-off calendar of 2008 laid amidst pointed pliers and colorful plastic wires. It wasn't 2008 anymore. I was sure of that. The first three years I had stayed in an slobbish apartment. There was a chubby boy in the neighb...
The Day My Dwww.onedoor.ccreams Died
Where… am I?The world swirls around me. Am I seated? Standing? Outside? Inside? When my head finally clears, I’m able to answer at least a couple of those questions. I seem to be in an unfamiliar apartment. A cheap one, at that, based on the decor. The couch I’m seated on is too firm and clashes with the chair in one corner. Dingy vertical blinds cover a door to my right. The only items in this room that seem to have any sort of value are a TV across from me and what appears to be a computer screen on a desk to my left. The owner’s clothes and other smaller belongings are scattered haphazardly...
Season of Change
Lyddie leaned her forehead against the cool window. It was a moonless night with the rain running in rivulets down the glass. This was the third night she’d woken up restless and worried. It was 3:00 am and she had to get up in 3 hours, but she was wide awake. The wind moved through the trees, splaying the branches like long, reaching arms. Normally the ping of the rain soothed her but not tonight, even her deep breathing exercises weren’t helping. School bills were going to be due soon. How was she going to pay for it all?Braide would be leaving for college in the fall, and she would be an ...
Artificial Connection
TV sets are turned on.Sunday“Breaking News. This is Aspen Woods reporting for HVVM Channel, your channel. Although this year’s drought has been increased by the global climate change, authorities found the cause for this year’s wildfire in California: experts concluded it was detonated by a match… Believe it or not, after many laborious hours of investigation, specialists from the California Fire Department claimed to follow a firing track, as they called it, to an area by the roadside, where they found the remains of a match, probably from a smoker who drove through the area…”Monday“Breaking...