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I began to wonder what it was like to see the sun after so many dark days in the cave. I wondered out to the open only to find a devastated land barren of all life from the nuclear bombs.
As she smiled the room seemed to fill with a warmth that I haven't felt before. She was a complete stranger but it felt like at that moment I had known her my whole life. As we looked across the room at each other our eyes spoke what our mouths didn't.
The train passed the station on a cold winter night in Alaska. It felt like years since we have seen the sun, felt the embrace of its warm rays of light. I sat on the bench in the cold darkness, waiting for the light to return.
Oh my beloved, how you ignore my very existence. I smile when you see me yet you don't return one. What do I have to do to exist to you oh beloved?
The funeral had a thick atmosphere of despair as the family grieved over the loss of their youngest child.
At the rise of the sun the army marched forward to its impending doom, knowing they would not last the day. As the onslaught of creatures charged their battle lines they fell one by one into the pages of history.
As old as the teacher was, she was still agile enough to dodge the incoming spitballs that were aimed for her head. She then turned around and stood there with a smile as if she had done something amazing.
Out of the corner of my eye I saw a women crying at street corner. I asked what was wrong and she told me through sobs and tears that she had lost her child. I said I would help her find her child. She said hes not coming back.
Forgetting how to walk I slowly fell on the ladder of society. I wondered how I was going to keep living the way I was as my soul filled with despair. Alone and failing I walk for the few days I can.
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