fiction
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Some people leave the room, and it’s as if the entire house exhales. The plants perk up, the shadows lift, and you realize the silence wasn’t empty—it was peace waiting to return. Strange how certain energies cling to you like an old habit, even long after their host has exited your life. You hear their…
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You wake before dawn, throat raw from dreams that tasted like smoke and applause, half-guilty you enjoyed the flames. The sky is still drunk on stars when the crows start circling the backyard—sentinels that never bought the lie that ‘no one’s watching.’ You step outside barefoot, damp grass shocking your nervous system awake, and you…
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Let’s talk about hate for a second.The all‑consuming kind that stalks the hallways of your chest, gnawing through the drywall of your ribs until the whole place echoes. Hate that hollows the heart, fogs the windshield, steals the keys, then tells you to drive. Hate that makes you swallow anything—rumors, half‑truths, poison—so long as it’s…
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It was what it was.Two souls colliding at the perfect moment—not perfect in love or fate or forever, but perfect in their ache. Two broken bodies haunted by the ghost that just slipped out the door, still smelling the smoke of the bridge that just burned behind them. They didn’t want forever. They didn’t even…
