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The Turning Point A Short Story By Jennica Wlodarczyk The room was dark. My face was scarred with dried tears, and my heart was cracking, crumbling; becoming completely lifeless. I could feel that my life was coming to a close. I had lost everything, and now I was losing my will to live. I looked down at my arms. Instead of seeing light blue lines underneath my skin, I saw veins of the utmost black. Instead of being powered by my own blood, I was being powered by darkness. And darkness didn’t have the power to keep me alive anymore. A slight moan escaped my lips, and I fell to the ground, my fall stopped only by my weak hands and knees. My life force was flickering away before my eyes. I literally saw the scale flat-lining. My body shook as I attempted to stand again. But every time I pushed up with my arms, an unseen force would pin me back down to the ground. My energy was being drained. My eyes were flickering. And then, I fell. The cold ground swallowed me up in a single bite as my body hit the floor. There was nothing left to lose. I knew that there was one thing that could save me, but I hadn’t called on that source of energy in years … would the other
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side still accept me?
Their hearts ablaze.
There wasn’t much of a choice. The moon cast up their dole exThere was nothing left to lose. pressions The ground broke. It was an indescribable happening. It was as if the ground just dissolved into a black abyss, and threw me into the inner depths of its destruction. With the last ounce of energy I had, I reached my hands skyward. And then I screamed.
And with that they poured out their confessions. The love they had; was it fading or was it growing? With a twinkle in her eye, she gleams.
Everything went black for a mo- “Father God is watching over us ment. For a moment, I was gone. tonight, he knows our pain he Everything had ended. I had knows what we will gain” ended. He whispers “my love my love, fear But then, just as quickly as every- not for he is here with us, not just thing had turned to darkness, an up in the clouds, he is all around” explosion of light surrounded me. They smile and gleam I had stopped falling. Was I … floating? I opened my eyes, feeling With the trickling stream between a surge of energy pulse through my them body. I looked down at my arms, almost afraid of what I was un- She tip toed toward him with the doubtedly going to see. The black hem of her dress soaked, she matter in my veins was gone. In- smiles stead, pure light energy was pulsing through my veins. Even if we’re miles apart we shall be together again The explosion of light had come from inside me. With little time remaining they pray and cast their worries up to My heart was beating. the sky and into the hands of the father. I was alive. Knowing this won’t be a bother again.
A Love So Strong
She murmured, “I want to serenade you”
A Poem By Emily Pearson
He looked up with a flickering passion in his eyes
Across the meadow their eyes “That is such a noble prize” meet and the moment they held She opened her mouth and let the their gaze melodies come out.