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Paul Tyree

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2024

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Dreaming a Little Dream

Paul Tyree

"To dream a little dream and not remember what you were dreaming about when you finally woke up." "You feel like you have gone off to another place, another time, living in another era of history, all while you are wishing you could remember what you were dreaming about." You are sitting in Auto Mechanics class, hearing the same stuff that the teacher has spoken about all semester long. You are getting tired of hearing about changing tires and spark plugs, wanting to get down and greasy. When the teacher looks right at you, meeting eye to ey...

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I Did This For Love

Paul Tyree

"Yes, I did this for love." "What you may ask did I do for Love?" "It all started around the turn of the century, where things were changing, from inventions of all sorts, to romance, love and of course marriage." "It was a time of passion and intrigue, where one could lay out in an open meadow and actually see the stars." "It was a time of new beginnings and old endings." "It was the age of retribution and of forgiveness, along with love being introduced into a new generation that was still under the old laws and statutes of what was to bec...

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The Ultimate Decision

Paul Tyree

The blind eye turns outward, looking away from the obvious. Yet no one sees anything, hears anything, nor knows anything and it is important that someone says something. It plays your mind like a pinball machine, the balls hitting the sides and falling down the chute so you can be played again. It plays your nerves like you are a fiddle or a guitar, hitting high notes only to slowly ever so slowly come down. You fall backwards and can't seem to sit upright, you try to stand and fall back like you are intoxicated, like you have drunk too much...

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Following the Rules, I didn't have a Choice

Paul Tyree

"I never knew that with the choices I have made or the choices I would make or even the choices I have yet to make, what those choices would have on the end results of anything that I thought of or that I spoke about." "I was always cautious, I was always careful to be sure that what I was thinking of would never be heard about by anyone that happen to be closest to me, or near me." "The idea is to always be careful when crossing the street, or walking into a dark alley, that one was never caught with their pants down around their ankles." "...

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The Moment You Reach Out

Paul Tyree

You are living in the city, close to a fault line, right in the heart of the busiest part of the city. You feel happy because you are centrally located. Close to your job at the Law Firm of Cooper, Drew, Polite and Curiosity. You are getting ready for your first day, you are excited to have found this place for next to nothing and having an excellent job surely can build one's confidence, to say the least. As you are heading out to walk the 3 blocks to work, you feel a jolt, then a second jolt, then a third. The third jolt is what knocked yo...

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The life of Betrayal, Treason and Deceit

Paul Tyree

It starts off innocently, becoming more of speculation and paranoia, then becomes panicky and uncertainty. It gives you a knot in your stomach or may make you wish you had turned the stove off this morning, for you begin to worry about what could happen instead of what may happen. You are hoping to divert your attention from the lump in your throat to the sweat dripping down your face from the area of your forehead, which will start to make a puddle at your feet. You are almost ready to give up hope, the moment is making you bite your nails ...

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I Never Understood

Paul Tyree

I always say, "I never understood. I will never understand." "No matter how many times you spend explaining to me what you feel I need to know, I will reply with "I don't understand." "It is due to my not fully using my brain or having more brain farts than the average person." "Maybe it's due to my not having a certain level of normal intelligence." "Maybe I just do not comprehend the basics and am always in a cloudy moment mentally." "No rhyme or reason to explain the various reasons behind my lack of basic knowledge or basic complete comp...

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From Bad to Worse

Paul Tyree

"How can you get from point to the next point, with making a human footprint?" "How can you know when the road ends at a dead end?" "When will the moment arrive that can take you higher than you ever thought possible?" "If you know so much, how can one never truly know enough?" That turning a present mistake, and trying to resolve it, may or may not make it worse than before even with the smallest of resolutions. It depends on what you are trying to use as the resoultion and how bad you want to fix the problem. Some problems have no resoluti...

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"What me Worry?"

Paul Tyree

"What me worry?" "You darn right I worry, not only once a day but more, way more than I used to." "I mean I worry about lots of things, silly to most, yet to me, they are important, more so than before." "I worry about various things from spiders and snakes to things striking the Earth and causing end time catastrophes." "Seems that I worry too much and overthink things that are everyday occurrences, or are normal to most, yet I worry I am going to die from a simple touching of my hand on moldy things, and it will cause my hand to rot off." ...

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Not On My Watch

Paul Tyree

So I was supposed to enlist in a limited tour of duty, then they surprised me with an additional amount of money, only if I decided to sign up for extra duty. I was simply ok with this additional money, but it was fine print that I was not clear on. Very simply put, I was not sure what was supposed to happen, much less being involved in solving other people's or other countries' problems. This is not what I had signed up for. I was unaware of what would happen if I backed out, or if I changed my mind, or worse yet was where they would plac...

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Two More Places at the Same Time

Paul Tyree

I was beginning out my day, walking, deep in thought, when I was drawn to a bright white light. I was not sure if I were awake or dreaming, as this was how my dreams would materialize, and always ended up being on the therapist couch, having to share my thoughts about my experiences. I was never so happy to share them. It was an out of body experience that he was thrilled about knowing, like someone watching you while you were having an intimate moment. It was very disturbing. I would start out walking down a newly lit path, in the city...

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The Sun Sets and the Sun Rises

Paul Tyree

Oh how the sun sets, and the sun rises in the same way and order from the beginning of time, though most have never noticed this. "Is it because the rotation of planet Earth, or the way the sun and moon are chasing each other, or what is it that from the start of time and space that have some sort of agreement with each other as to who leads and who follows?" No matter what the reason(s) are, there are some places on Earth which are hidden in plain sight gems. And most, if not all of them are so obvious and wonderous, they breathe life, brea...

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Alas Babylonia has Fallen

Paul Tyree

Submitted to Contest #300

Alas the once Great City of Babylon has fallen prey to the very things that once made it great and wonderful for all who were participants in its many adventures and all that it offered. "How can this city fall not unlike other cities, such as Rome, Egypt, Sodom and Gomorrah, Syria and all the many others that fell prey to their own wickedness and undoing?" "Was it their greed to be bigger and better than all the other cities who were possibly there long before they arrived and took over for their own purposes?" "What made one city greater t...

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The First to Arrive and the Last to Leave

Paul Tyree

It had been several years since I had decided to visit and it was supposed to be only a simple one, two-day visit at the least. There were many places I would visit only once, and these two places were at the top of my list of things never to repeat. Those two places were a church and a funeral. They were two of the least favorites and they always had a dim view of what were the reason(s) behind my not wanting to be in or at either. Funerals were the saddest kind of place to be, especially depending on who the funeral was for, and how they h...

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What Lies Underneath

Paul Tyree

When you have lived in a town, like the one I live in, for so many years, you begin to find out and figure out about all the many reasons why others have skeletons in their closets. Of course, it's better to leave the dead exactly where they were buried at. When you are walking down the street, and the eyes of the neighborhood are following you every step of the way, as though they wonder where you have been and where you are going. They are worried that you have been talking to others about them, as though you have been sharing their secret...

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