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Phone’s Off The Hook wrote about the word force 1 year, 9 months ago
Forces of nature roared around as the ground exploded in unison and precision that was far too calculated and symmetrical to be purely chance. The winds howled, the seas churned, the earth rolled. Yet all with an uncanny sense of purpose, of creation. Was this a new beginning? Was this a reveal?
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Phone’s Off The Hook wrote about the word umbrella 1 year, 9 months ago
An umbrella splash of flames and water fanned out across the horizon as the sea seemed to upturn on itself. The dry base of the crust of the Halo revealed itself beneath as the entire sky burst into a crowded station of colour and the birds scattered.
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Phone’s Off The Hook wrote about the word mean 1 year, 11 months ago
Meaning one thing is different to conveying one thing. Sometimes the surface detail matters, sometimes not. More to the point, what colour is the sun when it’s too bright to see? Words breed words but silence breeds thought.
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Phone’s Off The Hook wrote about the word cast 1 year, 11 months ago
Cast aside those doubts; think about the sun. Think about a positive role. Think about change. Think about a new adventure, new seas, new sights. Unlimited possibilities. Never entertain anything less. Think about change and growth. Think about happiness. Think about relaxation. Think about planning. Do it.
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Phone’s Off The Hook wrote about the word held 2 years ago
This man was holding up the traffic. Standing on a bridge up ahead, looking out. People had got out of their cars, shouting at everyone and no-one, red faced. A group of hippies sat on the top of their camper, looking at the bridge with binoculars. A man was walking up to the guy, holding [...]
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Phone’s Off The Hook wrote about the word backpack 2 years ago
It sat at the back of the closet, gathering dust, half obscured under layers of unused clothing. The backpack thought of when it had seen the world, met others like it. Those were good times. At least it had the memories.
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Phone’s Off The Hook wrote about the word montage 2 years ago
A montage of creatures, moving and breathing and seething before me. It was all human and lion and dragon and leopard and other, alien shapes all blended into a bloody mess of a cocktail, sneering at creation and all that was natural. It bowed and introduced itself as Charles Thornton Dasious Beta Seven Thyros.
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Phone’s Off The Hook wrote about the word sideburns 2 years ago
A bar more full of smoke than air. The smoke itself is heavy, drunk on fumes. A broken piano sits in the corner, played by a broken man with sideburns and a cowboy hat. This is downtown.
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Phone’s Off The Hook wrote about the word despair 2 years ago
Minimalist. The despair of clutter. Too much weight to lug around. I’d rather be light, sitting among trees. Watching the sun filter through the canopy. Giving things away. Throwing away the clutter. Lighter now. Free to move. Free to change. These are not my self.
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Phone’s Off The Hook wrote about the word mint 2 years ago
Bubbles in space. Never seen anything like it. The planet below shone a uniform reflection of the star beyond. Around it hung spheroid bubbles. Loads of them. Refreshing, I thought. We set course for the closest.
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Phone’s Off The Hook wrote about the word canteen 2 years ago
The canteen was dry. The desert was relentless and infinite. The sun above, well, I don’t even want to talk of that. It is the bane of all things. The canteen was dry. I can’t even remember its weight before, the feel of liquid. The shift of gravity. The canteen is dry, and I am [...]
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Phone’s Off The Hook wrote about the word torch 2 years ago
The darkness before us flickered and became light then flickered and became dark, then light again. The torch was faltering, but it kept a vague image of the path in our minds. We fumbled forward, ever aware of the immense weight above us, threatening to break through the roof. The walls of the tunnel were [...]
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Phone’s Off The Hook wrote about the word booth 2 years ago
The booth shook gently as the wheels clicked and locked onto another track, this time heading south it seemed. A sun hung lazily in the sky above. Trokl lifted a mobiler and threw it towards a neighbouring booth, one following in uncertain tandem. He enjoyed talking with strangers.
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Phone’s Off The Hook wrote about the word thief 2 years ago
I sat sipping a slightly too-hot coffee, staring blankly at the table, on which lay a crumpled newspaper. The headline was of a data thief, someone had stolen data through the targeting of pinpoint lasers. The coffee was sharp and acidic. Outside, low clouds threatened to burst.
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Phone’s Off The Hook wrote about the word pretzel 2 years ago
Complicated in shape, like her, Brutaliya loved the pretzel. She would eat them for hours on end, sitting at the edge of the Scape, watched the moons rise above the falling waterfalls. Servitors would bring pretzels to her as she sat, sometimes they would sing to her. When someone with such power wants something, you [...]
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Phone’s Off The Hook wrote about the word wrath 2 years ago
The storms waged war on the sea, which responded in kind, tossing the little fishing boat like it was nothing. The fishermen ran wildly, drowning in rain, pulling ropes, throwing buckets of water out. The storm showed no signs of ending, and Yntoiu wondered what they had done to deserve the wrath of these winds.
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Phone’s Off The Hook wrote about the word domestic 2 years, 1 month ago
The house stood at the top of a wild bluff overlooking the Puget Sound below. Some domestic animals played around its yard, tumbling and rolling around in the grown-long grass. I wondered if this was a place where we could live. The whole building seemed to slant to one side, as if longing for the [...]
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Phone’s Off The Hook wrote about the word mole 2 years, 1 month ago
There was an idea. The idea was of a mole. Something that tunnelled underground, blind but purposeful. That was the beginning of the plan that was to bring us to this place. Looking around, all we could see was a barren otherworld. We’d tunnelled through the land. We found another realm.
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Phone’s Off The Hook wrote about the word tempted 2 years, 1 month ago
Picking up new toys and suddenly being trapped in a box is no longer enough, even though it’s a comfortable, well working and perfectly sound box. No, you just want to build ladders, steps, new extensions. Perhaps paint the outside of the box. You want to flip it upside down. You want to change the [...]
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Phone’s Off The Hook wrote about the word curious 2 years, 1 month ago
It is important to look around the city you live in. To live its lives, to breathe its shadows. You must look out of the window and think about its people. To forget about the city. To forget about the dramas. That’s a form of dying. Every day is new and fresh, and we are [...]
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