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"Look! Out there! It's a ship coming in off the horizon!"
"Grandpa, that's just a garbage truck. You haven't been in the Navy for years."
I pushed my grandfather around as he sailed to save the world.
She lies in the field, skin slowly turning to leather, sucking down any moisture she can find. She hopes that no one finds her. But not as much as he does.
The game was fixed from the start, and that was the way I liked it. In a fair fight, when you lose, you only have yourself to blame. An unfair battle is a welcome relief, a way to please the unappeasable as you bitch and moan.
Bulbs flashed, people cheered, and the girl gladly took her place at on the stage to accept her prize. Her father threw a half-drunk beer at her as reality crashed back into place.
He danced slowly in the corner, swaying back, and forth, and back again, letting his breath rise and fall in what roughly amounted to the cadence of the music. He pulled back his lips and smiled broadly, exposing a little too much teeth, a little too little gum, and a complete lack of awareness of the sobbing on the other side of the door.
The torrents of rain pounded down into the river- splashing. So much splashing.
Thirty seconds, and it was over. The bus made it over the cliff; the boy at the bottom watched it descend for hours. And then, nothing.
You asked to meet in the coffee shop. I sat up all night, waiting, reminding myself that you had moved on, that you were happy in your new relationship. We met, and the awkwardness was pungent in your words and in my actions. And then we kissed.
I will not fall into the same traps that I made for myself before. I'm tired of wasting time; I did enough of that while I sat alone in my room with the lights out and the music up. I'm through with being alone, done looking at all the opportunities that I missed with contempt; I go out tonight a new man.
The horse stood silently in the barn as the rain beat down on the roof of the greenhouse, creating a quiet symphony of splashes and ricochets. He waited for his master to return and ride him again, lazily swinging his tail in time with nature's music.
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