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photo photography Poetry portrait

Run Till You’re Out of Breath

I run and run.
As hard as I can.
To escape from the punishment.
Oh, the things I’ve done.

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Fiction photo photography portrait

On Repeat


“I didn’t want to be out here. Today of all days, but here I am again. This corner. This intersection. Living these humiliating moments on repeat. And you just take a picture. Cold-hearted asshole.”


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Fiction photo photography portrait

Shade

I didn’t need to advertise who or what I was. One glance and you knew: combustible. Somebody to run away from.

But I wasn’t always like this. No one ever is. You grow into it, slowly and without meaning to, but then there is a day when you no longer see the person you hoped to be.


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Fiction photo photography Prose

The Boss

My brother had a plan. From the time we were small; always a plan. At seventeen, the bullet-train of ambition was off and he never looked down, much less back. I’m sure he’s rich, just like I know he’s a boss. Wherever he is today, he is the one in charge. But you can’t rise above your fate.

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Fiction photo photography

A Star

The dazzling lights may dim
But you’ll always be a star.


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Fiction photo photography portrait Prose

Looming

I scrolled as I waited, because why shouldn’t I? You said you had to talk to me. In person. So I waited at the bus stop by the tree, like I always do. I’ll be here when you arrive. Then we can talk.


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Fiction photo photography portrait Prose

You Think You Know, But You Don’t

“We get along okay and you’re pleasant enough. I like your stories about your ex, but let’s not pretend this is something it isn’t.”


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