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Time.

June 21, 2013
By mxckingbird SILVER, Missouri City, Texas
mxckingbird SILVER, Missouri City, Texas
8 articles 0 photos 6 comments

Favorite Quote:
"People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water." -Charles Bukowski


12:30 a.m.
The dark night rises throughout the cold, silent room as I take my seat in a row of many. A brilliant light shines from ahead. Scenes and pictures of a fictitious tale exude from the light. Not but a second goes by before chaos takes over, and time stops. Now a new light I see is shining from lands beyond. I approach it gracefully and I am gone.







9:30 a.m.
A kiss on both cheeks, and a suffocating yet loving hug; she was a free spirit, bound by no constraints, like a gust of wind, she so flew away into what was like a new town of other free and pure spirits. Innocence and virtue, all together in one place, at that very moment. Not but minutes later, the little town is swarmed. They all want to know. I want to know. Why my baby has not returned.
2:49 p.m.
My lungs close to failure; sweat piling up on my finely-aged skin. The flags are but mere steps away, and there I see it. That winning smile I long to see. It’s my smile too. Her sparkling eyes are mine as well. Every time I look deep into them, it makes my heart explode with passion, like an enclosed bomb ready to detonate. I extend my arms out, ready to receive that embrace I love ever so dearly. Less than a moment passes, my body struck by an inexplicable force, my ears screeching. She and I will never meet.

Memories fade and people change. Time is a demon to which society has fallen. The world never stops spinning, and there is simply nothing we can do but stand and watch.



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on Oct. 29 2014 at 8:35 pm
mxckingbird SILVER, Missouri City, Texas
8 articles 0 photos 6 comments

Favorite Quote:
"People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water." -Charles Bukowski

Haha it's fine, and no thank you for reading and responding to my work :)

on Oct. 1 2014 at 10:12 pm
Creative-Writer BRONZE, Mesa, Arizona
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Favorite Quote:
We know what we are, but know not what we may be. -William Shakespeare

oh...wow...sorry that I replied twice..

on Oct. 1 2014 at 10:09 pm
Creative-Writer BRONZE, Mesa, Arizona
4 articles 0 photos 37 comments

Favorite Quote:
We know what we are, but know not what we may be. -William Shakespeare

Oh!! that is very cool.  Also interesting that you know your stuff, and made a peom out of it.  Thank you for sharing that information!!

on Oct. 1 2014 at 10:06 pm
Creative-Writer BRONZE, Mesa, Arizona
4 articles 0 photos 37 comments

Favorite Quote:
We know what we are, but know not what we may be. -William Shakespeare

OH!!  That is really cool.  And interesting that you know your stuff, and made a peom out of it!  Thank you for explaining that to me.

on Sep. 29 2014 at 12:28 am
mxckingbird SILVER, Missouri City, Texas
8 articles 0 photos 6 comments

Favorite Quote:
"People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water." -Charles Bukowski

Thank you so so soooo much for your kind words. I know this story is kind of difficult to understand cause I get that a lot. But the first paragraph paralles to the shooting at the movie theatre in Colorado at the premiere of the dark night rises. The second paragraph is supposed to be about the Newtown shooting, andthe third is about the Boston marathon bombing. The times are simply the times in which the events occured. 

on Sep. 28 2014 at 10:13 pm
Creative-Writer BRONZE, Mesa, Arizona
4 articles 0 photos 37 comments

Favorite Quote:
We know what we are, but know not what we may be. -William Shakespeare

This is Great!  I don't understand,though, why your story starts at 12:30 A.M and then moves to 9:30 A.M.  Is it like the next day?  But ypur syntax builds up nicely, and your vocabulary is almost perfect.  please...NEVER stop writing!!!!!

on Sep. 22 2014 at 6:45 pm
AutumnMoon BRONZE, Lebanon, Maine
3 articles 0 photos 23 comments

Favorite Quote:
"We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us." -Cassandra Clare

I liked the passion in this piece, but I found it slightly hard to follow. At first I thought you were telling us a backwards story, but by the time I got to the end, I wasn't sure anymore. Maybe you need to go back and make it a bit more clear, or maybe you are going to write more. I don't know. This is all up to you though. I'm just hear to provide feadback. Good job! 3/5

on Jul. 13 2014 at 11:03 pm
Olivia-Atlet ELITE, Dardenne Prairie, Missouri
325 articles 10 photos 1165 comments

Favorite Quote:
"To these the past hath its phantoms,
More real than solid earth;
And to these death does not mean decay,
But only another birth"
- Isabella Banks

This is beautiful! I am honestly blown away, please continue to write. :)

on May. 6 2014 at 11:09 am
WOWriting SILVER, Broadstairs, Other
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Beautifully written but maybe a bit confusing? Maybe if it was a book, you could make a bit more sense but maybe I'm just being dim... still really good and i love the meaning behind the last part :)