Category: Personifications
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Personifications – Misery
Three years of hard work, gone in an instant. Three years of reaching out, building relationships, all while keeping an eye out for a new, undiscovered Personification, wasted. He was supposed to be the one smiling, the one giving knowing looks and dropping veiled hints all while relishing the utter failure of the others. In…
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Personifications – Fear
“I just don’t think you’re taking this seriously enough,” Fear could hear his mother saying from the next room. The voice that answered belonged to his psychologist, Dr Hess. “All I said is that he needs love and patience.” Supposedly, the psychologist’s room had been designed to be soundproof but Fear, in the half hour…
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Personifications – Secrets
The apartment, Secrets felt, was not too bad. It came already furnished so she hadn’t needed to go out and buy anything herself before she could move in and it also saved her the trouble of having to pay for movers to come and set anything up. Her neighbors weren’t too loud either. One of…
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Personifications – Trust
There were dark splotches marring the large mirror in the bathroom. Over the many years, moisture had seeped slowly inside the mirror and oxidized the silver backing. Each splotch was different. Some were nothing more than a pinprick whereas others were several inches across. It was the patterns, particularly along the edges of the splotches,…
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Personifications – Sympathy
Finding shapes, primarily faces, among the swirled texture of the ceiling was among Sympathy’s least favorite way to pass the time, and yet time and again she found herself doing just that, night after night. The orange light from the streetlamps outside her bedroom window made certain she always had enough illumination to see those…
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Personifications – Love
Winter had finally settled in around the small cabin. The storm from the night before had left several feet of snow, and the terrible winds that battered against the windows so fiercely that they seemed in danger of breaking. Now, in the clear light of dawn, it was hard to imagine anything so contrasting to…
Bridge of Broken Glass 