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Painfully Alone

September 18, 2009
By futurprez SILVER, Brooklyn, New York
futurprez SILVER, Brooklyn, New York
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Favorite Quote:
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.<br /> -Geddy Lee


He looked around at the crowd. There must have been hundreds of people there. He pulled his sweater tighter around himself, withdrawing inside it. He had never felt so alone in his life. He had never felt so alone amongst so many. Someone shoved into him. He didn’t even notice. He couldn’t remember the last time he had felt so invisible, so vulnerable. He couldn’t remember ever feeling so abandoned. He turned abruptly and ran. He couldn’t face it anymore. He couldn’t face the countless faces staring back at him, making strange pitiful glances in his direction. He ran until he could no longer hear the noise from the crowd. And then, he stopped. He sat on the curb and again, he pulled his sweater tighter, as if it were protecting him from more than the wind. And then he cried. Because suddenly, he couldn’t bear the stillness of being alone.



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on Oct. 6 2009 at 7:47 am
futurprez SILVER, Brooklyn, New York
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Favorite Quote:
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.<br /> -Geddy Lee

I'm experimenting with short shorts. That's like a story where it's really short but it gives a big picture and leaves room for interpretation. Thanks for the comment!

on Oct. 2 2009 at 4:28 pm
MeganAnne PLATINUM, Niskayuna, New York
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Favorite Quote:
All my life I&#039;ve looked at words as if I were seeing them for the first time. ~Ernest Hemingway

Wow. That was very good. Short, brief, left me craving for more! I found myself in a time where I felt like that, too...It's not easy. Keep it up.