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I heard and saw the hooded figures standing on each side of the Sybil. Who they were or what they were was not apparent, only that they guarded the mouth, the oracle, the mouthpiece of beyond. Then I began to quiver....

rally

I saw the cars rip around the bend in front of me.. I pushed in clutch and tapped the hand break as I drifted around the corner. The asphalt roared, and as the clutch shifted back in I floored the accelerator, diving down the straight-away....

He with concern saw the fast movement as the car in front of him drifted lanes, the back bumper of the car, knocked the front wheel of the motor cycle in a flash. He felt it move than...

mist

I saw the faint shroud blocking my sight and struggled to strain my eyes, to peer forward; Off in the horizon I saw her. Her faint billowing features, her lithe Grey form rising in twirling maw, the lady....

I see the light piercing the shuttered window all around . As I scried the room an old traditional office like of those from a noir movie, I waited for another, in the lobby, in the dull haze.

wake

I saw the light creep over the horizon, I didn't want to rise. I saw the amber tip of dawn rising out my window in bed, it was already too late. I would rise, I would face the day, the course was already set. I rose.

teeth

He felt the cracking in his ribs as the beast bit, the primordial demon, some monster from beyond, its yellow gleaming teeth tearing out. He screamed as he felt his entrails spilt as the creature began to feed,

duck

The man looked around the park and glanced the pond, the mother duck led her ducklings under some brush next to the shore as the rain started to fall. It reminded him how he was alone in his own storms.

I looked around the broken, wind slept landscape and at the mesas flanking my sides, I saw the soul of the west. behind me my partner, my associate a cowboy out of time, rode on a painted horse, enjoying the scenery under the bleaching Colorado sun.

I saw the equation and knew from the model, the half-life. I knew the correlations and I knew the odds so I knew it would happen with almost certainty. But certainty and it happening are different. Assuming it will happen and it happening even 9999/10000 are not certain.

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ben wrote about raise
“I saw the bodies on the floor around me and I feel a cold whisper in darkness of the crypt. Why was this broken into? Then in a tongue not unlike any I heard before I heard "Rise", and the lifeless …”

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