Tag: death
group name: suddenfiction
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September 21, 2007 08:00 AM EDT --
Would you rather I didn't see? Mae said, standing beside Brand who stood poised holding a gun at Claxton's head. Claxton was sitting in a chair bound by ropes around his arms. Brand‘s hand was . . . more
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January 15, 2007 08:09 AM EST --
Some time ago, a woman with a gun in her hand demanded of me and my companions that we provide good reasons why life is worth living. Otherwise she was going to terminate us.
I thought to myself: "This . . . more
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May 02, 2007 07:05 AM EDT --
He dreamt of a reincarnation on the exact day that he was to die. And it was exactly after he woke up from the dream, restless, that he realized that he was about to die. The only thing he couldn't . . . more
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April 28, 2007 07:39 PM EDT --
Alberto Banks had been saving all his life. He wanted to buy a river.
As a child, he had been given a ribbon by his father. A blue ribbon. His father was always this strange man who would scrutinize his . . . more
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November 12, 2007 04:14 AM EST --
Sister Scholastica left the refectory after lunch; made her way to the grounds for the twice-daily recreation period. She had been one of the twelve nuns to be chosen to have their feet washed by the . . . more
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January 15, 2007 07:29 AM EST --
My companions and I are in some kind of a building and strange, inexplicable things begin to happen. Every time we open a door to some room, the room and the things in it have changed. People try . . . more
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March 19, 2007 04:31 PM EDT --
Converte nos, Sister Teresa whispered, leaning forward in the darkness of the church; convert us, she repeated, sensing the infirmarian nun beside her, hearing the breath and muttered prayers. She had . . . more
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November 15, 2007 04:15 AM EST --
Sister Scholastica entered the church; sat on one of the choir stalls gazing at the Crucified up above the altar. Incense lingered from mass earlier in morning, merging with the smell of old wood and . . . more
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November 01, 2007 09:53 PM EDT --
He dismissed her memories as dark thoughts because she disappeared with the night.
He dismissed himself too, as dark thoughts because he disappeared within her.
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January 15, 2007 08:34 AM EST --
My companions and I realise suddenly that we are actually in the world of the dead.
We walk towards an open-air market that has many different stalls and see a newspaper headline about a boy from Titanic . . . more
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July 24, 2008 08:49 AM EDT --
The Distance
At last, she decided to mosaic her bedroom floor with his letters. They had been enabling her past. A past which she wanted to rob of the form and the structure. She wished she . . . more
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January 02, 2007 10:04 AM EST --
Slowly, his life became denser than the graveyards. Not 'til the recent times did the townsfolk notice that the gravestones growing out of the grasses were more in number than the flowers in the grave. . . . more
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June 30, 2007 01:50 AM EDT --
I came back to the abandoned place the pick up the last of her pieces. I was always against her metamorphosing into glass.
"You can't hold yourself together for too long that way", I had . . . more
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December 11, 2006 12:46 PM EST --
When he played the accordion, people could fly. Everyone loved him and the women cooked for him. After he'd fininshed his food, he would start tapping his left foot and picking his accordion would . . . more
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April 26, 2007 10:30 AM EDT --
He went from, town to town selling the breeze of foreign lands. He said he had cures to every disease trapped in his transparent jars. Even death. He had brought many a corpses back to life. One day a . . . more
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July 01, 2007 09:18 AM EDT --
His eyes had been burning since last night. He had caught one of her tears in his eyes. When he opened his eyes the world seemed infinitely more hazy than it did when he cried all by himself.
The sensation . . . more
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May 10, 2008 08:42 PM EDT --
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He was watching her breathe, when she stopped suddenly and turned towards him. "In this breath, I hold a thought" she said, "I'll set it free once you can guess it."
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July 12, 2008 11:29 AM EDT --
I used to live by the darkened road that led to the enchanted destinies of a fellow who was lost like a long awaited letter from my lover melting into the storm cutting its way into an alien land where . . . more
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June 25, 2008 01:50 AM EDT --
The growing up years of Pratti was different from rest of the girls. She had developed a hobby of collecting the corpses of her earlier lives. She even made a transparent glass cupboard to keep . . . more
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