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The brilliant blue sky was freckled with white clouds high in the sky. Sin leaned back. The warm sand felt like tiny pin pricks along his spine and shoulders but worked wonders on relaxing his exhausted muscles. He breathed in deep and the comforting smell of salt reminded him how far he had come to be laying under the sun on his beach. The memories came to him like photo’s in an album and despite the lack of wind and the heat of the sun, Sin shivered. “I did what was required of me. I bet and bluffed, and played…

It was a small rectangular room with no window at all. They only thing in the room was a broken stool. He sat and waited for his introduction Rigs could hear groups of people enter and take their places in the other room.. He knew the exact number of the population but only those who were not on duty were permitted to show and watch. The population was something he had to watch very carefully in his position. More people meant more rooms in need of basic essentials. Most of those essentials required power. Power they did not have. It…

Samuel felt his phone vibrate in his pocket. He wished the message would be from Megan,the girl of his dreams. The image of her invaded his mind. He could imagine her now, walking along the campus path with her summer dress waving in the timid breeze. His eyes followed her, waiting for her to evaporate like water in this heat. She continued to draw closer. Samuel blinked. She still remained. “Don’t you pass out on me Sammy.” The words were accompanied by a firm hand on his shoulder. Samuel redirected his attention to the handsome blue eyes of his friend…

Aleer walked through the house and out the back door. He stood on the cement patio and lit a cigaret. A brief look around told him all her needed to know; his neighbors were sleeping. “I don’t care about sunsets or nursery rhymes Verick. I care about dying and death. Oh yes, and this tiny little deal that was made to keep me alive. I know small little things like who saved my life shouldn’t matter, but they do.” Aleer’s tone was harsh and direct. Verick’s face contorted into a snarl and sparks seemed to flash in his gray eyes.…

Aleer was leaning against the edge of his desk in the dark, palms pressed firmly into the solid wood. His fingers drummed quietly as he spoke into the darkness. “There has to be something else you can tell me Verick.” “There is nothing more I can say.” “What do you mean ‘a deal has been made’? By whom?” Aleer pushed himself away from the desk and paced the short length of the office. “Damn you Verick, I wish you could answer just one of my questions with a plain statement for once. None of this ring around the rosie bullshit…

Here I stand. Wishing. Waiting. Praying for the day to come to a close and for tomorrow not to show. Here I stand deserted and alone. I remember the genuine smiles and the laughter of a life worth living. I replay the memories in my mind and wonder why. Why there are so few now compared to the past. Was it because of my personality? Have I become someone who is unable to communicate, to love, to feel, to know. Have I disappeared into the shadow of my former self? I thought I understood loneliness but I realize now I…

Aleer was back in his childhood bedroom, looking down at himself. It was not the bedroom his foster family loaned him for his short stay, but the one in his nightmares. It was not so much a bedroom as a prison and torture chamber. The signs were evident now as he stood in the room with twenty more years of knowledge. Aleer had recounted this memory to his therapist countless times in the cold manner a professor could recite a lecture. This was different. Aleer felt the remnants of hope destroyed a thousand times and, pain from muscles bruised to…

Kacey’s lower lip quivered. Her eyes never left Aleer’s as her hand brushed his earth brown hair away from his face. She wanted to speak but pain sealed the words in her throat. He smiled and raised his hand to caress her cheek and wipe away the stream of tears. She hadn’t realized she was crying. She had been too focused on him. He tried to sit up from the ground but any movement caused a great deal of pain and blood to flow from the wound more freely “How does it look Kacey?” His voice was low and calm.…