Snap shots: a short story collection
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    Snap shots: a short story collection

    Cerita Pendek

    This is simply a collection of all the short stories not tied to a specific larger writing project but that I want to share.

    She

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    She
    1
    She could smell gas even before she opened the door.
    The room was sickly sweet and smelled of rotten eggs;
    And there was something not quite right about the window.
    2
    The house held her newest self; but they had still found her.
    A mountain of muscle cross-slashed with scars she had EARNED.
    The men were not expecting her to be awake.
    3
    The bright light contrasting with the dark hallway
    Bathing everything in a shimmer glow
    A moment to engage or flee
    4.
    A quickening of steps brought her closer
    The closest one fell silently before her
    Caught unaware and gasping for air
    5
    The grasping out at the darkness
    The snare of entrapment hot against her wrist
    The fear of understanding dawning
    6
    The shadow behind her new prey turned towards her
    The shock of awareness giving way to the wince of mortality
    The blade had found a fleshly sheath
    7
    The hollow thuds of her villain's falling
    The quickening of her hands exploring
    The jingling of keys grasped tightly
    8
    The slick imploring of her unhinging
    The jangle of her entrapment falling
    Freedom tasting like copper on her tongue
    9
    The strain of standing and
    The weight she dragged further
    Towards a hopeful escape
    10
    The searching of her captor
    The sickly sweet smell of approaching fire
    The destruction of the evident assailant
    11
    The promise made of retribution
    The brand new day shining brightly burning
    Her eyes adjusting to the world
    12
    The desolation of the world now
    The unfulfilled promise of brighter days
    Tasting bitter upon her memory
    13
    She strapped the weapon to her person
    The supplies scavenged for brighter days
    Hope that shivered at her new knowledge
    14
    A promise remembered that must be kept
    A strategy that lacked a first step
    A firm beginning of an end
    15
    Wasteland crying through the trees
    Memory brought forth on bended knee
    A prayer for loss of bondage- a prayer to go free
    16
    She shed the skin of ghosts and children
    She broke her heart and hid its pieces
    A search for peace that has been derailed
    17
    The world that's ending
    She sought only peace
    A warrior life thrust upon her
    18
    Skill learned at younger years
    Skills she regretted inbreed into her bones
    Skills she used without thought
    19
    New papers to find new homes
    Small bills and smaller caliber
    Small minds but bigger dreams- deferred
    20
    Upon her path she slid imploring
    No map to find her destination
    A goal to put an end to those child ghosts
    21
    Waste land scavenged for darker futures
    No promises to fill for ghosts
    Miles to go before she sleeps - Miles to go before she sleeps
    22
    Her steps were solid on that scorched Earth
    A mission to seek and to find
    Retribution for the scars she held so tight
    23
    The ghosts that screamed behind her eyes
    Fuel that kept her moving forward
    Darkness blending with crimson dripping
    24
    New world built upon the ashes
    Old world relics that lost their meaning
    "No Trespassing" signs upon her soul
    25
    She held to her weapon tightly
    Honesty and grief filled souls
    She would preserver against the darkness- She would preserver
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