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His round chin would rise and fall, sending out words that tore me to bits. I rarely broke my eyes away from his gaze, even when they were blurring with tears. His bushy, graying hair was much like the clouds hanging in the sky. The light was just right as it broke through those clouds [...]
Rain was tapping away at the roof when I tossed the hefty blankets aside and rolled out from under their warmth. After slipping into the old, worn sweatpants, I slowly made my way down the stairs with every effort to avoid letting the floorboards moan under my weight. In this old cottage where every noise can be heard from every room, I didn’t want to wake my two friends still sleeping soundly in the next room. I slid my feet into the cheap pair of sandals [...]
The sun was hovering over the land, ready to retire beneath a horizon of rolling pastures of grazing sheep and cattle. Few clouds kept the sun company in their great blue expanse, but two in particular caught my attention. Equidistant from the sun and diametrically opposed, two clouds were brighter than the rest. As we [...]
We spend our days living in fear of death and dying.
Perhaps we are spending our days dying,
in fear of actually living.
