He voraciously inhaled each time he brought the cigarette to his lips. With every drag he puckered his lips firmly around the cigarette, intent on feeling a more powerful burning in the base of his throat. The smoke enveloped him in a cloud of pure tar.
The night was a bitter cold that drenche...
I have gotten used to it—being alone. This is a feeling that begins, at first, as isolating, but as most things do, it becomes something else, even a good thing. But what is a good thing can also grow to become isolating too. The rate at which they change happens at an up-down rate, and since my ...
When I first encountered the object, it mystified and interested me. It had an eerie color of brown, hints of orange oozing from the top. With long and thick, muscular veins, the object stood tall, even when it stood about six inches in reality. It was an object of beauty; crystal-like, untouchable....
The sun screamed in my eyes.
Pain was inflicted upon them, while my pupils began to be
scorched,
my eyelids seared,
brows shrunken.
Although the agony,
I continued on,
towards the unknown ahead.
A brilliant light,
wildly askew in many places,
lay before me.
The feeling inside of me ...
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