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Paul Tyree

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2024

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On the Number 39 Bus

Paul Tyree

The bus stops at the place to let you on. You enter the open doors and look for a seat to sit in for the trip home. Looking outside the window, you are drawn to a dark shadow, with its collar pulled up to hide its features and identity. You sense that you are being followed. You lower yourself deeper into the seat so that the person whom you think is following you is not aware of you on this bus. Too late, they saw you after you had first been seated, so they ran to catch the 39 bus, but were too late to catch this bus. You feel relieved, bu...

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The Moment is Gone.....Forever

Paul Tyree

You wake up and look at the night stand, only to realize you have had another very bad night, much less getting any sleep. This has been ongoing since you were a young boy and it seems the matter has passed on into your adulthood. You feel angry at the very idea of how people would really feel if they found out you suffer from night terrors or worse, an inability to control your thoughts and your dreams. They would judge you and scoff at you, thinking nothing good about this, much less losing respect for you, or worse yet discrediting you as...

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Darkness before the Dawn

Paul Tyree

This moment, where you are and where you are standing. You know it will happen, but what will happen, you know not of. You begin to board a late night train bound for anywhere, and heading to anywhere will be your final destination. You grab a window seat before relaxing and settling in for the long trip. You notice a lot of people that are coming aboard at this ungodly hour and most are elderly people who seem preoccupied with just getting a seat before the train lurches and creeps forward. You are getting a book ready to be read, when a ma...

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Oh so Little Time

Paul Tyree

To start this moment, one needs a subject or a topic and then proceed with a cause for this to happen. It will only last a noticeably short amount of time yet keep you wishing for more. Though time is not only limited and about to cease, but you can also only make one decision that could alter your life in a huge way, because of that decision you make. It can be in the blink of an eye, that what you wish for may be in your favor or may work against you. Either way you have so little time to make that decision in. You look all around you an...

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What Time Is It?

Paul Tyree

"What time is it you ask?" "What time is it?" "Why should I be asked about the time, when it is a precious commodity?". Time is as precious as the air we breathe or the water we drink or being able to walk and go places freely. Time is something that makes us look at it and ponder how long we have left to live on planet Earth. Time is valuable and yet it can never have a price tag placed on it because there is never enough money you can offer and time can never be barter with or bought at ay price. No matter when you ask the question, What t...

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The Room with an Open View

Paul Tyree

The place was cold and dark. It was certain that the room which was bland with no more than a metal bed and a toilet was at least not without some furniture. I was laying on the floor instead, because the bed gave no comfort and it was very hard begin metal. It was no offering anything but more pain and suffering since I was bleeding from my back. I was being tortured daily, endless removing me from my room just to be scared into sharing secrets, Secrets that could very well get me killed for even remotely showing in my face what I actually ...

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The Very Things that Matter(ed) Most

Paul Tyree

To be more than an average person, yet not knowing what we wish to do exactly to become that better than average person. We seek out answers and try to solve all the problems, of not only our own, but we then want to do the same for others. As if life was not already a mixed bag of uncertainty and the unknown, as if the world was filled with incomplete and unexplainable things that either bring with it fear and depression. As if we all want so much to become a reality, then we place things on a shelf that make life less stressful. or make li...

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The Rules are There are No Rules

Paul Tyree

The rules don't always apply to all as they are made by those who make rules for others and yet they make their own rules up as they go along throughout life and expect others to follow the very rules made by them but not for them. There are those who try to confuse you into being something you are not or are not meant to be. They lead you or mislead you in a direction that may cause you to question all the many things and the very reasons behind what you have been believing because those that mislead you are in the dark themselves. It seems...

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To Fall Prey to the Unknown

Paul Tyree

The moment the idea came into my head, it was bigger than my own brain could comprehend. I was not sure what feelings or emotions I would allow myself to feel. I was not certain how I would be able to compute the things that were becoming my train of thought. I was new to this pattern of all that mattered and yet somehow I was not too concerned except that as I was thinking and putting all into a certain order, it was obvious that I was well aware of what may or may not happen. I was at an age that even if they were actual words of reality...

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To Know and Yet to Become

Paul Tyree

The main reason behind knowing is to believe that knowledge will help you get through anything that life throws your way. If we hold onto that very fact, we will somehow become better for knowing and finding that we knew it all along. We believe in so many things we hear but sometimes never look for the truth in what we believe, and more so take them for face value. If we do this more often than not, we never allow ourselves the opportunity to discover more in what is shown us and what is actual facts. We should always ask the why or at leas...

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Quitting is not an Option

Paul Tyree

It was the only way to find a way to exit out, yet this was not one of those open options, not in the slightest bit. It begins to become unbearably hot and there is no relief in sight. You run under and over things, looking for anything moving suspiciously. You sense danger when there is none. You breathe heavily and it keeps your adrenaline pumping. You rush towards openings in walls, racing towards doors that slam shut or windows that are barred from you exiting them. You are paranoid and looking around, you are not sure whether you will r...

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Hidden in Plain Sight

Paul Tyree

"How do you figure out the truth, without the truth being revealed to you?" "How do you know what will become real, before it is even spoken about?" "How does one know who will be the one to arrested for committing a crime, when there is no evidence that they actually did it?" When asking who, what, where, when, why and how, it is better to know what the facts are, what the proof is to show to all that it is an open and shut case. Without proof, nothing has happened, and no one will ever believe word of mouth only. When the door is opened wi...

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Surprise, surprise, Surprise

Paul Tyree

It started out to be one decent day, or a decent moment or even decent whatever. I was wanting this to be a simple basic day, and it was beginning to be just that. "What could go wrong?" "What could happen to change this from a simply awesome day, into a day filled with more questions than answers?" "What could cause this day to become more of one filled with regret and being sad, instead of happiness and joy?" Your guess is as good as mine would be or could be, yet I was not sure how to or where to begin. I was surely wanting this good s...

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To Yearn for Something that is Never Spoken

Paul Tyree

The time was upon us. We were never sure when and where it had started and surely had no idea when and where it would end. We were lost. We felt we had outlived our usefulness, then the reality set in, and it became more apparent, we would never be allowed to speak of or know of it ever again. We arrived in a transporter, along with others, who were sentenced to the same painful existence, yet this was not the end, which would happen later. It was a moment in which we were looking at and like a mirrored reflection, we were only seeing the tr...

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What is This?

Paul Tyree

So here I am walking down the street, passing by the same way, seeing the same things I do all the time, when I noticed a shadow hunched over and trying to remain hidden from sight. I headed in the direction of what I saw, not sure of what I saw, then was confronted by this stray, who appeared timid and frightened by seeing me. At first, I was not sure how to respond to this surprise meeting of a stray, which had been near where I was walking all the time, yet I was feeling saddened by the idea that anyone was having to be out in the cold, e...

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