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2 May 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
It was just as I was lying down in the large, poster bed of some vanished millionaire that my band, my collar, came to life again. I think Dora could sense this and took it as an opportune moment to beguile me. “Sam, are you about to sleep for the...
2 May 2023 1 minute read 0 comments The Virtual Idealist
I stand here in this foreign land, Surrounded by things I don't understand, A stranger to the customs and ways, Feeling lost in a sea of different faces. Everything seems so unfamiliar, I'm like a fish out of water, Trying to navigate this...
2 May 2023 1 minute read 0 comments The Virtual Idealist
The morning light creeps in through the blinds, And the alarm clock, it rudely reminds, That it's time to rise, and start the day, But I lay here, wishing it would go away. There's nothing in my life, that gives me purpose, No reason to get up, and...
2 May 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
She fell silent. I was full of thoughts. I walked slowly through this mall, gazing into the storefronts as if shopping, but I needed none of it. You might think that my life in the woods alone, and with my brother the three years before that was a...
2 May 2023 1 minute read 0 comments The Virtual Idealist
Of all the things that we can know, There's nothing quite like the ebb and flow, Of the tide that pulls, and the waves that crash, As the sea roars, and the seagulls squawk and dash. The sand beneath our feet, so fine, As the water tickles, and the...
2 May 2023 1 minute read 0 comments VelvetRaindrops
I wanted to be like Addie. Everyone loved her. Including me. It was hard not to. She was kind, funny, sweet and smart but it made me sad to know I would always be second best. Next to her, nobody really paid much attention to me. I didn't have to be...
2 May 2023 2 minute read 0 comments VelvetRaindrops
He bustled around the kitchen, his movements almost as fast as his mind was racing. He had not been this happy in a long time; perhaps never before as happy as now. There was the one time, but this was better than even his best, most precious memory....
2 May 2023 1 minute read 0 comments The Virtual Idealist
The sky above is draped in grey, As the clouds roll in, and the sun fades away, A gentle mist falls, like a veil, And the world takes on, a softer and mellowed feel. The clouds hang low, like a thick blanket, And the air is still, as if holding its...
1 May 2023 1 minute read 0 comments The Virtual Idealist
Dreams are like windows, to another world, A place where reality, becomes unfurled, Where anything is possible, and everything's new, And the only limit, is what we can't imagine to be true. In our dreams, we can fly, without wings, Or walk on wate...
1 May 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I came across my first clue in the first city I entered heading south, the city of Barrie. There, in an otherwise empty mall I found a corpse, the body of an older man recently dead, slumped over on a bench in the concourse. I’m no mortician but h...
