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Lucille commented on the post, sweat 1 year, 3 months ago
Dripping down your chest, glistening in the fading afternoon sunlight. You smile, breathing heavily, leaning in for another kiss.
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Lucille wrote about the word return 1 year, 6 months ago
I sometimes wish returns worked for things other than merchandise. This relationship isn’t like the picture on the box, I want my time back please.
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Lucille wrote about the word abstract 1 year, 7 months ago
I finish the final sentences of my length research paper, thinking wistfully of what I could have done with the hours wasted. This work is all for a greater goal. Five years from now I won’t be thinking about whatever grade I receive on this assignment.
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Lucille wrote about the word tires 1 year, 7 months ago
I wait anxiously, staring at the clock as the seconds creep by. It has been too long, it is always too long. Four wheels carry you to where I am.
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Lucille wrote about the word still 1 year, 7 months ago
Winter air surrounds us’ caressing, icy, kisses. Falling, fluttering, flakes land silently on our shoulders in the light of a full moon. There is peace here.
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Lucille wrote about the word dense 1 year, 8 months ago
The forest here is much more dense than it was near her old home in the Midwest. The trees juxtaposed the population of her new town, nearly a tenth of the population of her old one. It’s colder here. She needed to get used to that.
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Lucille wrote about the word concern 1 year, 9 months ago
What worries me about this is how easy it is. Loving you is effortless. People have always told me that you have to work hard to make love last…so why don’t we?
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Lucille wrote about the word chance 1 year, 9 months ago
There is only a one letter difference between chance and change.
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Lucille wrote about the word chance 1 year, 9 months ago
In every move we make together, every step forward, there is a chance it will lead to everything falling apart. Each kiss, could be our last kiss because in an instant either one of us could change our minds.
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Lucille wrote about the word elastic 1 year, 10 months ago
You and I are connected, as if by a rubber band. When we’re far apart, the connection stretches to accommodate, and snaps right back when we come together. I wonder though, when the weeks apart drag on…how much stretching can this bond take?
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Lucille wrote about the word boiling 1 year, 10 months ago
They say a watched pot never boils, but the expression rarely applies to heating water. It just means that if you’re looking and waiting for something to happen, it isn’t going to happen. You must focus your attention elsewhere, and be caught off guard by the boiling water.
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Lucille wrote about the word cigarette 1 year, 11 months ago
Odi et amo. I am not a smoker, but my family smokes. I hate going out and smelling like cigarettes, I do my best to avoid it. But, there’s something in them that has the smell of home.
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Lucille wrote about the word honest 1 year, 11 months ago
They weren’t looking at each other, they couldn’t. With their eyes fixed to their shoelaces, they contemplated the words that had just been spoken. They seemed to linger in the air, their presence almost tangible; these words that could not be unsaid.
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Lucille wrote about the word wade 1 year, 11 months ago
The sun is beating down on his back as they enter the water. He wishes he had brought a bathing suit; he had not known it would be this hot. He contemplates swimming anyway. The water is as blue as her eyes and sparkles the same way they do. She sparkles. He loves the way [...]
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Lucille wrote about the word wade 1 year, 11 months ago
I didn’t bring my bathing suit so I only take a few steps into the lake, cautious of the waves that wet the bottom of my shorts. You dive in and swim far out, you are a much better swimmer than I am. You seem to want to put distance between us, maybe thinking this [...]
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Lucille wrote about the word crush 1 year, 11 months ago
Sitting near the willow in your backyard, we share an orange crush. The sunlight passes through the glass, casting orange light on our legs. I remember someone telling me once that orange is the happiest color; in that moment, I have to agree.
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Lucille wrote about the word intense 1 year, 12 months ago
This word would describe the way every emotion was with you. When you made me happy, I was intensely happy, when you upset me (which was much more often) I was intensely upset. I fell for you hard, and I loved the rush of emotions you provided. In the end, I can only handle so [...]
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Lucille wrote about the word embraced 2 years ago
At the end of a long and horrible day, your arms are what I crave the most. The warmth, and love and friendship and comfort found in them can erase nearly any hardship. When we are apart, days like today get much more difficult.
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Lucille wrote about the word forgetting 2 years ago
As each photo goes into the box, I imagine that each memory attached goes with it. So simple, to erase you. My head feels clear for the first time in a long time as another box of unwanted memories goes onto the shelf. Maybe I’ll want them someday.
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Lucille wrote about the word plaid 2 years ago
It was my most comfortable shirt. Brown plaid. I didn’t care that I looked horrible in it, it was still the softest fabric I had ever felt. I wore it at least once a week over a lacy white shirt.
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