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Resilient1
Self-rescuing princess with A.B.D. in absurdity.
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Prose Challenge of the Week #20: Write a three sentence story about desire. The winner will be chosen based on a number of criteria, this includes: fire, form, and creative edge. Number of reads, bookmarks, and shares will also be taken into consideration. The winner will receive $100. When sharing to Twitter, please use the hashtag #ProseChallenge
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Je n’arrive pas à trouver le sommeil.

You come to me unbidden, unexpected, unwanted when I cannot give myself to you with abandon; you interrupt my thoughts and conversations. I find myself chasing you into the night, wanting so badly for you to envelop and overpower me; yet you elude me time and again, leaving me restless, wakeful, frustrated, spent and unable to find the comfort of your embrace.  I feel you at my back, taunting me with your promises of peace and solitude, even as you remain just out of reach until the moments before sunrise when, exhausted from the chase, I sleep at last.

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Seeing

My boy talks to the unseen, the crossed over.

His father, whispering in his ear 

From behind a curtain of promises and dreams

Bears him pictures of peace, of rest,

Sweet black dogs curled at his feet.