I don't believe in regret, but I sure do miss being a kid. (471 hits)
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Submitted by supersloth (View user info) at 2006-10-11 11:35:37 EDT
The sky through the windshield was a dull grey beast, heavy with impending snow. As it flew by above us, flakes like ashes floated past the car. My attention wandered to the open window. A river of lanes, cars, and detritus floated behind us. Tobacco smoke curled past and I remembered the cigarette in my hand. Our car rocked uneasily in its lane and I closed my eyes.
A flash of sunlight woke me up, and I knew I was still dreaming. The river had become a road, solid black, dolled up with crisp yellows and whites, flashing under a chlorine-blue sky. The sun shone on the back of my neck and I didn't mind.
A flash of teeth, unstained by wine, cigarettes and coffee, and now I was sure that I was still dreaming. Three sets of eyes sparkled like water in the sun, untouched by pain. Untouched by loss. By hate, greed, anger, or age. I was in the castle of my childhood, and my feet yearned for powder sand. I laughed, and three faces laughed with me. I wanted now... Wanted ocean air that made you cough, seaweed fights, warm soda and food smothered by sand.
Crashes of white waves welcomed us, and we ran with childish abandon over grass-laced dunes onto an untouched beach where nobody had been before. My flip flops sailed into the air behind me, and four towels floated to the sand, like the flutter of paper on the last day of school. We raced into the ocean, great plumes of water adorning our paths into the blue. I dove.
A solitary trumpet played somewhere in the distance, an underwater oddity, and Billie Holiday sang of things I didn't understand...
...Until I awoke, gasping, grasping for everything that I once had.
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Submitted by morontian (user info) at 2006-10-12 16:16:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
For proving that I'm just a bitter bastard at heart.
Submitted by Amontillado (user info) at 2006-10-11 18:23:30 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Susie_Derkins (user info) at 2006-10-11 16:09:12 (#)
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*WEEEEPS*
Submitted by Susie_Derkins (user info) at 2006-10-11 16:09:12 EDT (#)
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*WEEEEPS*
Submitted by Sassmasterr (user info) at 2006-10-11 15:32:00 EDT (#)
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the fact that i've been drinking since 1:30p (eastern) makes this post all the more real to me.
i love being a loser.
Submitted by Hypatia86 (user info) at 2006-10-11 14:10:54 EDT (#)
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I set that pic as my desktop, nice.
Submitted by jack11058 (user info) at 2006-10-11 13:54:29 EDT (#)
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well written
Submitted by DudeThatsBOSH (user info) at 2006-10-11 13:48:16 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by kybernetikum (user info) at 2006-10-11 13:14:51 EDT (#)
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Nice! No rape, no violence, no profanities! Thank you so much, you are not american are you?
Submitted by HotWillie (user info) at 2006-10-11 13:09:48 EDT (#)
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Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-10-11 12:26:45 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2006-10-11 12:10:35 EDT (#)
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<3
Submitted by morontian (user info) at 2006-10-11 11:53:39 EDT (#)
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Not horrible. God love ya if you get this stuff to sell.