Wedding Day It's the day that I have been waiting for my whole life. Today I am getting married to my best friend. Her name is Haley. We have known each other since the third grade but we never realized how we felt about each other until my 21st birthday, which was three years ago. That night at my party, my life changed forever... "What a turn out. I didn't expect this many people to come." Justice spoke in my ear. "Yeah, me too. Even people I haven't spoken in years came…
Island of Paradise Rose grabbed her suitcase by the door and headed down to her long limo, her older leaning on the limo. Rose, her brother Leo, and her few friends were going to her family island for 6 weeks to have a amazing vacation. As Rose entered the limo, with Leo already in there somehow, going on her phone seeing a new message from Jared. She smiled at the name with a light blush creeping onto her face. She responded to Jared saying they were getting him and the…
Day in the life You know when you wake up sometimes and it already feels like it's going to be a bad day and it usually is? Yeah not my day today. My day starts how it always starts. Not that I'm complaining but still. Every morning I wake up to my wonderful wife who sleeps like a bear and sort of snores like one too but that goes out the window since seeing the rest of her body is splayed out for me hardly covered by the soft knit sheets she just had to have. Reaching over…
One Second It's the way the sun hits you on a snowy day, when you can smell winter, but summer is all you feel. Your skin breaks out in shivers of appreciation, and you close your eyes for just a second to face the beaming sun. One second. One single second that feels like an eternity full of joy, love and hope. As you feel the sun kiss your skin, you reminisce on all the times you did this before. You see yourself standing in the middle of a busy street, riding your bike,…
Bound Hearts "Baxter Books," I said to myself. I hadn't noticed this shop the last time I was in this part of town, so I decided to take a look. I grabbed the large, black door handle and pulled myself inside. As I took a step into the shop, I noted the walls, a light shade of blue and bookshelves lining them. The aisles of books were floor to ceiling, with various colors of easy chairs placed throughout in little reading books. Toward the back, I could see a small coffee…
Tall, Dark and Handsome "Sorry, Reese." Beth grimaced. Taylor mirrored Beth's expression. "We'll miss you! and don't worry, it's only a few hours. We'll be reunited before you know it." "I will be just fine," I laughed as I watched my best friends take their seats on the plane. I continued on to my seat, a few rows behind, smiling to myself about how I may have purposely lost the bet to decide who had to sit alone. Don't get me wrong, I loved my friends, but I wanted nothing…
Black Coffee "Shit, I'm late." James woke up to a strange scent in his apartment. However, he couldn't have dwelled on it any longer because he was deathly late for work. Hurriedly, he got dressed without showering and headed off. This was nothing new for him, but anyone would think he'd changed when he was promoted as the new vice chairman. Despite being late to work everyday, he was never immensely late as he was right now. So, this morning he left his condominium without…
Rise My view of the world is different from a man's. A man looks up, looks out, and sees what is his domain. I scurry, I flit, looking only at the floor to see what might impede my movement to serve. Kneeling in prayer, my lips automatically reciting the prayer for our government my mother had taught me so long ago, my view remained only the floor. Silently, I waited, daring to move only when I heard his voice, extolling the virtues of government crackdowns this week.…
Balancing Act A section of the pavement outside the Regency Hotel was still cordoned off when I got there. The tower Hamlets council workmen were probably too busy drinking tea to powerwash the blood stains away. I stood and stared at the marks where my twin sister Sally had hit the ground. ****** It took me 24 hours to get over my initial shock after being informed of her death. Two policewomen had called at my flat at dawn the previous day to break the news face to face.…
Dog Star Solstice He caught me coming home from the office. I got out of the subway and was just a few blocks from my place when from across the street he called, "Joe. Hey, Joe." I turned. He was a stocky guy, a bear in a brown suit, dark untidy hair. One stout hand gripped a polystyrene cup. He lumbered toward me calling, "Joe?" "No, not Joe. I shook my head emphatically to make him understand. But he kept at it. "Joe. Joe?" Gnashing my teeth, I walked on, thinking, poor…
Unexpected Pleasure My alarm went off at precisely four o-clock. An hour before daybreak. For a few seconds, I languished in my warm bed, sluggishly gathering my thoughts and trying to remember why the alarm was set so early. Then it clicked. Today was the day of my quarterly check-up. I slid out of bed and dressed quickly. A plaid shirt, jeans, hiking boots and a well-insulated dark green anorak. It was late spring but still bitterly cold in the pre-dawn. On the way out to…
Stars of Steel *HANSEL* *I missed my flight. Damian showed up and we argued. I'm trying to get another flight but not so lucky. I'll send you a message if I make it tomorrow or not.* I hit the send message to my best friend Julius. Julius had left a day before me. I had some pending errands I had to do. After a couple of weeks of a stressful divorce and a busy schedule. I planned a mini vacation with Julius to Paris but my ex-husband decided to show up at my door asking for…
The summit There's something about the mountains, a peaceful stillness in their unforgiving presence. Whatever it is, I am always lured back for more. A new mountain with new challenges, bigger and deadlier than the last. Perhaps that's what brought me to Everest. Months of training had prepared me to cope with the icy climate, I planned to survive this climb. Everest has a way of reminding you that the living don't belong here. A trail of bodies guided me up the slopes like…
All my favorite foods We all have favorite foods so I know you will also taste the ones I always want to eat haha. But I will also share with you the foods that I do not want to eat And of course I will not lose the dessert when there is money inevitably buy haha. ***Dish*** **Adobong manok with spicy** **Image Source** https://pin.it/6uTksQj Since I was a child, that dish is often cooked at home because it is easy to cook and we really get more rice when our dish is Adobong…
All alone Ella walked through walls and wondered why the others could not. Where's mummy? Snippets of memories floated in and out of objects and she had spent her days, weeks, months, trying to collect them. Who am I? She asked a man and another little girl, but they shut the front door behind them as they left. She tried to leave with them, but she was trapped-trapped in a house she couldn't remember entering, and couldn't imagine being without. Mummy? Ella could hear…
All alone ll Where's my mummy? Ella felt the walls of the house as if they were alive, the sound of her mother's heart beating, the corridors contracting around them. Soft whispers gave orders to enter her dad's body-let the darkness take control. Mummy? Is that you? What do I have to do? "Who's there?" Dad called out, startled. "It's me," said Ella, but the voice was not her own, the darkness throttling her. "Who said that?" Dad said as he fell from the chair. "It's Ella,…
Pinned up I have always had a love for books. One of those kids who could read a book in a single sitting. But as I got older, other things became more important and should destroyed my love for reading. Forcing me to read specific books for class was not exactly encouraging me to pick up another book at home. But now I'm in college, things are changing and I am learning to rediscover myself. I am starting with trying to revive my love for books. In order to do that you've…
Home They had landed. "What's the matter?" She said. "Blue, green..." He said. "And.. What?" The captain looked sick. His cheeks were hollow and his grey eyes were lifeless. 'It's looks just like home.' "We.. are home..." She said defiantly. The words seemed to bring him comfort. His eyes melted and he swallowed tightly. 'You're right,' he choked. 'After years of being lost in space.. We're finally home.' She looked at him with soft, glimmering eyes. 'Stop looking looking at…
Which came first, The Alien or the Egg? Low rumbles reverberated through the steel chamber. Akemi sat primly at its centre, hands folded in her lap, eyes closed, not a single hair out of place. Doors as thick as she was tall shuddered apart, and summer-warmed air poured in. She waited a moment for the dizziness to fade, then opened her eyes. Four decades into the future, her lab was still pristine, and blessedly empty. She stepped neatly out of the bowels of her machine. It…
Human Her eyes reflected the millions of stars above us and her pale skin bathed in the moonlight. She looked up into the not too cloudy sky with a vacant and content stare while taking another drag on her joint. She was more quiet than usual;meaning, between the two of us, there were little words spoken. Her hair fell in its natural way, in dark and messy waves. Her eyelashes were covered in no mascara and her face was free from foundation. Her lips weren't red and the…
The life of a valiant OFW The life of a brave OFW is not easy, most of us here in the philippines think that when they go abroad they will be flushed that they didn't think they could go abroad to get better at life .. Especially now here in the philippines life is very hard because of the corruption of politics so most of us are forced to go abroad even if they don't want to leave their families. . My boyfriend is one of those who wants to go abroad so now he is arranging…
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