The Gem Within
Written for the High-ku Challenge
"In my heart, you'll stay,
The surface of my skin,
You'll climb up to win."
- Kaliyah Myers, A Mountain Inspired Haiku
About the Creator
Kaliyah Myers
"Change is imperative. But the kind of change is the most important detail."
In being a writer, I hope to share something relatable and adventurous that you can love too.
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Disarmament
They say there's no atheism in the foxhole. While I wasn't currently neck-deep in a river of soft sediment, I was still praying to whoever would listen. Why am I doing this again? I would ponder while staring at the device that in no less than a minute could be my undoing. I scanned each and every variable panel and commonplace button as I watched the bright red L.E.D ticker countdown. No wires to cut, no code to put in, there was only one way to stop this infernal machine, and that incurred perfect timing.
By James U. Rizzi2 days ago in Fiction
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From the perspective of the mountain... I like it.