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Six Word Stories (28)

Have you ever noticed how beautiful a well made path is? It guides in one of the most unassuming ways. “Please walk here. Yes, you are free to step away, but the way has already been made ready for you.” The most beautiful paths enhance their surroundings, letting you explore without destroying. We use paths…
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Free

No one saw me head to the ground, feet to the sky, pretending to fly. It would have made you cry hilarity.
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Lava Worm

Was it a shriek of delight or fear? She didn’t know as it forced its way from her chest to the cavity of her mouth. A little heart pounded the rhythm of it as it bubbled into an audible note. “Stay back. You can’t catch me.” The floor moved. The carpet rippling right before her…
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Chords

A single Wave came awake. Was it particles all clumped together? No. It was sound. A singleness that moved and bounced and collided with its siblings within the darkness.
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Learning to grow in silence can be hard. Sometimes we think all the action happens when our lives are spinning at a crazy pace. But we still grow in silence. It’s like a child doing most of his growing while asleep. Or a brain learning when it’s allowed to be bored. When WE are silent,…
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Gregory

Strong hands trace the grains down the length of lumber. “She’s beautiful.” “It’ll do then?” “Perfectly.” Muscular hands grasp the beam, pulling it down from the delivery truck.
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What is hope? An intangible thing that all humanity grasps for. Sometimes I imagine I can feel it’s edges like a feather soft thing, just out of reach. But is it really out of reach? Is hope something to be grasped? No. Hope is experienced, not held. Hope is found but not possessed. It lives…
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Delight

Do you delightin melike a piece of poetry, understood by poetdifferentlythen reader? Do you rejoiceto seeevery part of me, as I spill words across your page? Free to bepure alchemymixed by Creator’s quill. Bubbling with will. Rephrasing me,EMBOLDENED be, speaking full while hushed and still. ©2021 Mary Grace van der Kroef
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The presence of light has such power. It can illuminate or bind us. Darkness shreds in the presence of even a single flame. It sets a mood and tells a story. It’s an element that shouts volumes, with just a whispered presence. Light is energy. Without it, growth is impossible. Nature has a way of…
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Joy

Found in simple spaceswhen lights have dimmed to easeweariness of day from shoulders prone. In the morning beamswhere radiance singsreserving stage for feathered accompaniment notes. Shimmers in the shadowslike the fuzziness of heat,but greats in bells that chime with chirping mirth. Often hid amidwide open spaceblending with a magic you can not trace. Given to…
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