He was an intrusion, of absolute proportion; penetrating her world after ingesting her soul in words; adjusting his intention to mirror her verse; and yield to him she did, as a scent on the breeze. He fooled and beguiled, wrapping her so tightly in his web of illusion, so as to not draw breath, in [...]
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We were at the Renaissance festival in Washington Gardens; a beautiful southern park which sits along the banks of the Intracoastal Waterway. A place where you could lay your blanket and picnic under the canopy of ancient oaks, as pods of dolphins breech the surface and play in the blue green waters just a few [...]
Filed in In Dreams, short stories No Responses yet
She stood in the doorway of the veranda, the moon shining through the branches, casting eerie shadows over the lawn. She watched as he pulled out of the circular drive, his taillights disappearing into the night; remembering his last words, wondering if she’d ever see him again, knowing full well she didn’t want to live [...]
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It was a small southern town in the 1950‘s, just like every other, all across these “united” states. They were standing on the corner outside the drugstore; where the sign on the door read, “No Coloreds Allowed.” Threes brothers in their late teens and early twenties, all of them the spitting image of their [...]
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With old patterns faltering in the wake of time, serving him less and less; desperation creeps, then slowly sets in.
Searching for something real to cling to; in a world of illusion and cheap parlor tricks; of which he created and has always dwelled.
Better to be an imaginary somebody, than a real no body; his platform, [...]
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Fragments from Being
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Product Description
A short story and poetry collective by Jill [J.A.] Terry; a masterful weaver of words with an eloquence not often found within the pages of modern authors.
Paperback: 294 pages
Publisher: Pandora’s Boox (July 2, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0578030683
ISBN-13: 978-0578030685
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 15.4 ounces
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It was one of those days; grueling, exhausting and quite frankly, unproductive. As if all I did the entire day, was shuffle stacks of papers from one end of the desk to the other and back. The end finally came, and with it the rains; nothing like rush hour traffic in a full blown storm [...]
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He could see how tired she was, that day he happened upon her alone in the café; and though he purposely took his thoughts elsewhere, ignoring her completely, he knew from her body language that he’d once known so well, there was something amiss; and he couldn’t help but wonder what was going on in [...]
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My mission was clear, determined in the hours preceding my slumber. A journey must be made in order to obtain the necessary information to formulate my plot. And so under the cloak of darkness, when my body and mind were at rest and the door to world’s unknown lay open and waiting, my spirit took [...]
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