M.C. Murphy
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Words have the power to change everything.
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Time is a Circle
I watch, with fond remembrance, this freckle faced girl running from the sprinklers on her Grandparents lawn. She slips on the tall, slick grass but regains her balance only because I caught her before her head could smack the pavement, ending what needs to be.
By M.C. Murphy 5 years ago in Poets
My Coming of Age Ghost Story. Runner-Up in Identity Challenge.
Where was I? Rather, When was I? I seemed to be standing on the same piece of ground I knew so well, but like a slide projector, time was flickering away in front of me. I was a child. The room was crowded and warmed by the body heat. Loud, crowded, safe. A fire was burning. I kept trying to get close to it and my mom kept pulling me away. How the flaming red embers allured me, crumbling to ash after being so alive just moments before. The blue-green at the very center of the flame, I wanted to live in that place. Always warm, always protected.
By M.C. Murphy 5 years ago in Horror
I Used to be Fast. Top Story - July 2021.
I used to be fast. I've had fleeting moments, but could never pinpoint a time in my life I could confidently say, "I am happy." I wonder if anyone truly is because I cannot conceive of that feeling lasting longer than a few minutes at most. I hear people say they are and feel how I imagine the blind must feel when being told about color. The knowing that I don't understand and never will is as horrible as it is perplexing.
By M.C. Murphy 5 years ago in Confessions
When Ravens Eat Men
Her Grandmother had always known. How had it taken her this long to put it all together? It had been years since she dared open the locket, so afraid its weathered clasp would never close again. Afraid she would lose what was inside of it, along with all else she had lost. Her hands fumbled one too many times over the tarnished, golden heart and lost the will of the moment.
By M.C. Murphy 5 years ago in Futurism
