Tag: fiction
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When the Curtain Fell
There’s a particular kind of silence that only happens right before a person’s life changes. It’s not the peaceful kind — it’s a silence that holds its breath, that waits, that trembles just a little at the edges. I felt that silence sitting in the second row of the small community theater, hands clenched around…
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Whispers on the Wind of What Will Be
The late afternoon sun, a molten orb sinking behind the skeletal remains of the old Pontiac Silverdome, cast long, dancing shadows across the deserted parking lot. Elara, her scarf pulled high against the unseasonably cool breeze of early October, hurried towards her battered Ford Focus. A sigh escaped her lips, a small cloud of vapor…
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When the Clocks Forgot to Tick
Mara found out she could stop time when she was nine. It wasn’t a grand discovery involving lightning bolts or ancient relics. No, it happened because she didn’t want her ice cream to melt. She blinked hard, like a kid willing a wish into existence, and suddenly the dripping stopped mid-fall. The world hung there,…