Lucid Waking

Archive for August 20th, 2009

Emotion Study

Hey! So, I haven’t been writing a lot, I’ll admit. I’ve gotten a writer’s block the size of a small truck, but I knew I had to get back into it. I decided to turn my impending move into a good description practice. There is no plot to this and no more will be written. If you have any feedback, please share it. (If you want to privately comment, email me.)

        I took a final step along the sidewalk and stopped before stumbling off a precipice. Below me was fog and above me, a scarlet gray abyss. I was inclined to call it the end of the world, but there was something so…full…about the area around me that I thought the end might better describe and emptier space. Don’t think that amidst this contemplation I was calm, however. My stomach made odd contractions and my eyes started burning with tears. A lump weighted heavily in my chest and my head started to pound. I couldn’t breath for those first moments while I caught my step and my body started to shake. As I stared at the light gray, I stopped shaking and started breathing while the tears disappeared, but my stomach was still wringing itself over the seemingly bottomless pit. The weight in my chest remained and grew heavier until it grew as large as the abyss in front of me.

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