Minutes to Midnight (Moonbreath II) by Tilkie, literature
Literature
Minutes to Midnight (Moonbreath II)
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I count the minutes to midnight,
hold my breath until I get
my next fresh start, for my next disaster; I am
tabula rasa for those precious hours,
once morning slips in the room,
picking the lock
on a technicality.
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We can’t see in the blank of the dark,
in the only void where we both come alive,
so instead we reach for each other
with our intangible hands; we’re silenced,
but we beat the hum of our murmurs back and forth;
we think it helps.
I think we’re wrong.
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In those minutes to midnight we still struggle
and surge, softly, waiting to throw
all our hopes to the wind;
all our hopes, on the wind,
they s
Minute Stories: 1-Charlie finds a ticket by ECAsCLOUD, literature
Literature
Minute Stories: 1-Charlie finds a ticket
Minute stories: not only because all of them take a minute to write but because they are tiny and quick.
Charlie finds an amusement park ticket. Takes advantage of it and embraces a medium length car drive to Tarraco, home of Adventure Harbour.
There has buttery tacos in the Mexican Cantina, rides Txacoal Fire Fury and then enters the Mayan-Gypsy Haunted House. The special FXs there are supreme, maybe too much. He freaks out, tries to escape by opening a "Do not enter" door. It turns out the door is there to block a dangerous change of level. He falls down and loses conscience. After an indeterminate amount of time -2minutes- he recovers co