Carly Marie

Joined January 2022

4 stories

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Carly is a writer, digital nomad, and women's issues advocate who is currently traveling across Europe and Central Asia.

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Runner-Up in Return of the Night Owl Challenge

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Each Day. Top Story - October 2024.
I learned how to love from the rising of the sun. each day, a fresh start
By Carly Marieabout a year ago in Poets
Heavy
It felt heavier than I remembered, weighted down by the burden of a million secrets. I brushed away the last bits of dirt and soil clinging to its rusted lid and carefully held it up to the light. Some things can be buried for a lifetime and still feel like not a single day has passed. My fingertips hovered, for just a moment, over the clasp of a diary he would wish had never been unearthed.
By Carly Marie3 years ago in Fiction
Released
Thirty years of loyalty and devotion had kept us apart, had split us down the middle like the spine of an open book. Pages unturned. Chapters unread. His love, ever protective, sheltering me behind the bulwark of his violence.
By Carly Marie3 years ago in Fiction
Under the Cover of Night. Runner-Up in Return of the Night Owl Challenge.
I pulled the blinds shut on my window thinking that it could block out more than just the sunlight, that it could somehow muffle the sound of the birds chirping outside, too. Their happiness felt like a slap in the face, a callous way of laughing at my misery. I rolled into a ball and yanked my tear-soaked pillow over my head. It did a better job of shutting out the cheeriness of the world, snuffing out all the light and letting me retreat into the near-silence of my muted thoughts.
By Carly Marie4 years ago in Fiction