Stories tagged “DYING”
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A Many-colored Sheet
A sullen sun, tired and heavy, settled on the Locata mountain ridge. It lay there like a man dying, bleeding pastel oranges and pinks out across the cloud streaked sky and down the purple shadows below.
These last moments before night were the most beaut…
Posted 7 years ago -
Deathbed
My cell hadn't rang in days. I no longer cared where it was.
I lay looking at a wall four inches from my face trying not to think. The thin covers kept me warm enough and as I stared at the wall, committing my entire being into a single-hued landscape of…
Posted 8 years ago -
Night Sky
The sky is amazing. So many stars. A view you will never see living your whole life in a city. I must be a hundred kilometres or more from the nearest town of any size. The night of the new moon, too, means a view that too few people in this world ever ge…
Posted 10 years ago