Category: Emotional
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Sheriff of a Small Town (Submitted by Ryan Casca)
Local ruffians get drunk one night at the towns creaky saloon. After one to many complaints from customers ending in broken teeth and broken bottles, they are confronted by the peaceful sheriff. He tells them to head on home, but before they do they best clean up their mess. They…
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Nuclear Dreams (Submitted by Alex)
In my dreams last night I witnessed a glimpse of a nuclear fall out. I felt the heat around me whilst I watched the people closest to me perish to the instant swallow of the atomic tragedy. I was a survivor in a world now full of savage bandits who…
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Top Secret Information – Morse code translation
~ CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION CONTAINED. DO NOT SHARE IT WITH ANYONE. ~ … .-. — – …. . .-. –..– / .. ..-. / -.– — ..- / ..-. .. -. -.. / – …. .. … / .. / …. .- …- . / -. . . -.. . -..…
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Life’s Not a Movie
Movies misguided me. The heroes are all known and loved by the citizens, yet here I am without anyone acknowledging I exist. I walk down the streets not making a difference to the people around me. I get bumped into often as people don’t notice or care about the physical…
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Understudy Overshadows
The show is going great so far. I have my understudy on stand-by since my health has been wavering for the last few hours, but I’m still smashing out all my lines and the sickness is barely getting to me. I hear whispers in the wings during the climax of…
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Predictable Storylines
She didn’t know what was about to take place, but I knew. I had known it all along. I have seen this story play thousands of times and they all end the same. This little girl is going to be bullied in school and it leaves her to face the…
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Shattered Mirror
The mirror across the room isn’t completely broken although you can see the cracks of it. What reflects back to me is not quite familiar, not quite strange. It still does the job you expect it to, it just isn’t the same as it used to be. The shattered glass…
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Mine mine mine (Submitted by Alex)
I was driving my car today to My job, on My road, from My house. Why did you think it was okay to cut in front Me hey? What…. did you think this was Your day to ruin Mine? I don’t think so pal – in fact there’s a special…
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Emotional Friend group
Attention is like the friend who drags me out of the house to go partying with strangers, to introduce me to their friend Embarrassment. No offense Embarrassment but I would prefer not to be your friend. I’m actually considering creating more distance in my friendship with Attention and maybe making…
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Social Alien
Although I have the same flesh and bones and blood as others of my kind, I stand alone. I got no friend, and if I did none of them would understand me. I barely comprehend what I am myself. I’m alienated from the rest of this world. I’ve tried to…
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Deathbed Regrets
When looking back on my life, while the last breaths in me escape, I think about all the people who were part of my life. So many encouraged me with warm words, many giving me a gentle smile as they passed by, a lot of attention, and more love than…
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Fading Into the Crowd
It is so easy to fade away into a crowd. We all fade in and out of existence. Some call it standing in a crowd or being a stranger to those around us. We live invisible lives in the public eye but it doesn’t exclude our private lives. Friends forget…
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Recluse Forced Outside
I just had to get out. My brother hacked into all my devices and technology in my apartment. I left my family home for a reason and kept to myself because it is easier to hide from the world and my family. My brother happens to be Chuck Domsburg so…
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The Battle (Submitted by Kid Valiant)
“CAPTAIN! THEY’RE GAINING ON US! WHAT DO WE DO?!” I yell out, awaiting a response. Impulsively, I run away to gather any loot & weapons I can in order to prepare for the attack. My hands are sweaty, my breaths are getting real heavy. “USE WHATEVER WEAPON YOU HAVE. THEY’RE…
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Cactus Longing
The sands are barren. There is nothing within my field of vision. The sun beams directly onto me and it can get quite warm. I have to store my water supplies and ration them out carefully. In the rare chance it rains, I store the water within my body for…
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Astrology after Death
The laptop closes after I finish doing some more online shopping. My basket was filled with herbal medicine, hair dye, grey led pencils, and tarot cards. It seems to be everything I had on my list of things I wanted to buy for today. The pencils I already have sit…
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Footsteps (Submitted by Juicy McBurger)
It was the sound of tiny feet padding across the carpet which woke me from my slumber. I smiled. My little girl woke me up this way most days. “Daddy!” she exclaimed as she jumped into bed to give me a cuddle. I squeezed her back. “Are you ok? Your…
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Delayed Healthcare
“Hey, I’m just calling up today to cancel my appointment under the name Francis Strom. When is your next available time for me to come in?” I hear a sigh echo through from the other side of the phone. “Francis, you’ve cancelled your appointment with Dr Graham four times now.…
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Concentration
My teachers tell me every day that I need to concentrate in class. My parents yell at me for not listening to them as I’m not making eye contact. Then when it comes to sitting down and doing my homework, I yell at myself in my head to sit still…
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Like Eyes to the Soul (Submitted by HullaBaloo)
Solitary stands the figure in the room before me. Judgment cast, contempt within its wandering eyes. Chastened by the sight of me: my grim complexion, my skin weathered and worn. Its face contorts uneasily. It holds no reservations, nor any such concessions. It Hates. So Unforgiving is the hatred born…
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