oneword.com ||| forge

oneword.com ||| forge: "It's time to forge a new path. Enough of the walking in circles and searching for the same things over and over. Look outside your comfort zone for christsakes. You might actually realise that life is there to be lived, not endured."

oneword.com ||| sunken

oneword.com ||| sunken: "#

Today my eyes are sunken deep, from lack of sleep and stress and worry, from beer and food too rich and hurried."

oneword.com ||| microphone

oneword.com ||| microphone: "The first time I saw her holding one I was terrified. I mean, what is she stuffed it up? Her voice was so much louder than everyone elses, I wondered why they bothered giving her a microphone at all? And then the people cheered wildly and I realised that I was the only one who didn't know she was the most talented girl in the world.

[alice]"

oneword.com ||| glimpse

oneword.com ||| glimpse: "The last time I thought I saw a glimpse of you was in a service station in Toowoomba. I saw you stop and look and I quickly looked away because I didn't want you to think I was staring, when I glanced back you were gone. Now I wonder if I had caught your eye and we had spoken, if I would feel any better or worse now that you are dead."

oneword.com ||| hidden

oneword.com ||| hidden: "Under the mattress perhaps, or did she put it at the back of her underwear drawer. I have looked there already, she is getting agitated. I wonder about looking back in her handbag again or what about in the light shade that is never switched on? In the end months go by before she remembers that she put it in her toilet bag. Dear Mum, bless her and her safe wallet."

oneword.com ||| soothe

oneword.com ||| soothe: "You reach across and touch my shoulder, you seem to want to soothe my pain but I want to bat your hand away. I don't know why your touch feels so condescending, why I feel so broken and empty and all that I love feels lost."

oneword.com ||| sentence

oneword.com ||| sentence: "I read that writing a novel is really all about writing a good sentence and then another and another. Eventually if you put enough good sentences together you might have a novel. It would probably be best if you tried to keep them all on topic, maybe."

oneword.com ||| union

oneword.com ||| union: "On the hill at Ballymore I wore my boyfriends big yellow woollen jumper. I felt sloppy and comfortable in the biting cold wind as the players grunted and smashed and the crowd cheered and drank rum and coke. I don't really like Union."

oneword.com ||| sitting

oneword.com ||| sitting: "I spend far too much time sitting here. I sit here in the morning as the sun filters through the gum leaves and highlights the dust on my screen. I am still here at night when the cold breeze creeps around my ankles and mosquitoes bite in the dark."

oneword.com ||| climb

oneword.com ||| climb: "There's a wall there, in my mind. I climb it somedays and peek over the top and other days it towers over me, threatening to tumble and fall and squash me beneath it's heavy crumbling bricks.

[Alice]"

oneword.: mystery: "[alice]
That's life isn't it, an unending mystery that we all scramble to solve. What will happen next? What will each day bring? You tell me. You will always be a mystery to me
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