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Paul Tyree

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2024

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It was the First Time to meet and Fall in Deep

Paul Tyree

It was the first time we met; it was a moment that I will never forget. It was love at first sight, it was happiness in the morning and the perfect ending to the day, now, day turned to night. It was where I was, sitting there in my corner booth, drinking my mixed drink, reading my long-awaited book, and not noticing anything else, or so I thought. I looked up from my book, was caught by a glance or a stare, and this other person was looking in my direction. They stopped when they noticed me looking at them, as they were looking at me, and ...

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The Truth can Hurt More

Paul Tyree

The day was not too bad when I first got up to go out. I was looking forward to meeting with my mom, with whom I chose to meet for coffee, around this time each Thursday. I was getting dressed and making sure I had my usual two cups of coffee, before I headed out, so that I would be mentally and emotionally prepared to meet with her. The facts were this, she was in her early eighties, was starting to show signs of dementia, and sometimes came to the coffee shop, missing certain items, that we would use to have our Thursday chats, while we sh...

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Changing is Sometimes for a Good Cause

Paul Tyree

To go into a local restaurant's bathroom. To find a stall that is empty, to then open your gym bag, rustling through your gym bag, to find the costume you will be wearing. You reach over and open the garment bag that has your new, pressed costume, the one you will wear to do your "gig" for entertainment, and you giggle. It's your first time getting into your costume, feeling silly and slightly embarrassed, you dress in your getup and are walking to the bathroom sink to apply your make up. You place your nose and your wig on, making sure they...

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The Room Imagined

Paul Tyree

"The room is unfamiliar. I don't know how I got here." I woke up and looked around. I was upset at the idea, all these thoughts going through my head and then my head started screaming at me. I felt my head and touching my head, felt two large bumps. I was dizzy and nauseous, I was so disoriented, I tried to stand up and fell backwards several times before I finally was able to stay standing. I knew one thing, this was beginning to feel like one of those video games, like "Exit Here", or "Escape if You Can". I also had seen "Saw" and d...

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Sometimes Words are too much to Say.

Paul Tyree

Sometimes words are too much to say, this could be case in this scenario, with two people have a basic conversation, which becomes more like an explosive argument about who knows what, unless you follow it from the beginning. Let's listen in on their chatting between each other...... "Hey, Bert, what are you doing?""What do you mean, what am I doing?""You spying on me or something?""Hey Bert, are being paranoid or something?""I might be just wondering what you want by contacting me on my private line, that I did not want you to contact me on...

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The Ending is yet to be announced......

Paul Tyree

I woke, from a dream, where I was not certain, where I was actually at and where I was suppose to be at. I felt my way across the covers on the bed, eventually pulling them off of me, exposing my pajamas and as I sat up, turning in the direction of my bedroom door, I saw a light under the door. Yes, my simple curiosity was getting the best of me, and I being the nosy person, alone in the room, I heading towards the door, and was not sure what to expect. I crept slowly towards the door, partly filled with fear, partly filled with other emotio...

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To Feel the Wind, blowing against my Cheek

Paul Tyree

I was standing there, not sure how I would go about my day. I was not sure how I was able to even start, but I was certain I would go on and do what I had to do. I was heading out the door, when I was confronted by a huge gust of wind, that was kind of chilly, yet very welcoming, and this was followed by some rain drops, which meant it would not be sunny, or as warm as I had hoped it would. I returned inside to add a light jacket, that would keep me dry and warm, if need be. I then was heading out the door again, when the rain drops starte...

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The Changing Weather that followed my Moods

Paul Tyree

Boy was I ever in a mood. "Why, you may ask?" Because it was a Monday morning, and I am not a huge fan of either Mondays, or mornings, to say the least. Yes, I can get really riled up and down right annoyed at the thought of the previous weekend, ending abruptly. I was looking out as the Monday morning sun, rose up in the day light sky, which made me happy and smiling. Then I saw clouds, that were hiding rain or something close to that, which turned my happy into a sad and crappy. I was then working my way into the kitchen to fix my morn...

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The Storm is on the Horizon.....see it Coming into View

Paul Tyree

The storm that is bringing a wave of the unknown. The storm that will soon be here and with it, will be some unforeseen force, that will either be gentle and not harm us or will leave us to pick up the pieces left behind while we watch it harm us in many ways. Like a thief in the night, it may come while we sleep, may even rob us blind, and then allow us to be awaken by what remains of the former. It will be a storm that will never be considered friendly nor a friend in any sense. The storm that we "watch" has been brewing to become full len...

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The Rain that is falling, is also a part of my falling Tears.

Paul Tyree

To start where I should, or at least bring you "up to speed", I am needing to "backtrack" nearer the beginning so you will be sure to see what I am seeing, but through my eyes. This is where I am at, in this present moment, in this present place, in this darkness that engulfs my very being, is wrapped around me, like a blanket, and has me in its grasp, taking every breath I breathe, until it overwhelms me endlessly. The rain started earlier, when the black clouds rolled inward, turning a clear and sunny day, into a void of endless black. It ...

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A Place where the weather never Changes....not even Once.

Paul Tyree

Now imagine, if you will, being in a location anywhere in the world, where the weather remains the same. A place that "promises" you the ideal weather of your dreams, in your lifetime, like for at least the remainder of your years in this life. You wish to share this time with me, so you too can know what it is like to have weather that neither changes nor will change from what it is presently. For you want to have the moments of seeing what it can be like and what it would be like, if in a perfect world, this was the case. You feel the ha...

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I sit and wait for the moment..... to Arrive

Paul Tyree

I start off, waking up and wishing I could for see what the day will bring, yet without assurance of the day's events or even the next moment to be a certainty. I move around in my bed, looking at all the bedroom has to offer, then I decide I will fix some tea ths morning, instead of my usual cup of coffee, possibly two cups of coffee, for today my friend will be paying a "surprise" visit. "How long has it been, since we last visited?" Since we last visited, it was before the last time we were at war, the country that is, deeply involved ...

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To Share that which is Embarrassing to Me

Paul Tyree

"How do I even know where to begin or how to start?" "How do I share this or that, without the fear of being criticize and judged?" It does not feel easy or seem easy, as most would have one believe, yet most have no truly understood idea of sharing and pouring out one's emotions and one's feelings, that everyone could honestly say that they understand what I am experiencing or having had to go through or deal with when that moment presented itself I feel that when I am saddened or angered, when I am happy or overjoyed, when I am bewilder...

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To express Emotions Yet not know which Emotion is being expressed

Paul Tyree

I stand before you, yet you are not there. I speak to you, yet you hear nothing I have to say. I want to share with you how I am and how I feel, yet you have no response to what I share. I am beside myself, I am enraged and bewildered, I am so overwhelmed with a seething anger, frustrated because of how this is happening and how it will come to an abrupt end, that was never foreseen, even if I had imagined it to be this way. I am looking out into the night sky, with a starry and cloudless expansion of the great void, the endless space of t...

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To receive Comfort or some form of Comfort

Paul Tyree

Ah! the hug that is given or the spoken words that hope to help someone see themselves differently and maybe even smile. Oh how can this be even equally explicit as a kiss on the cheek or on the lips. "How far should one go before it steps over some certain "line" or possibly crosses a certain boundary that is placed between two people who may or my not share some form of attraction"? "How can this be the very thing, the hug either side ways or straight forward into a close embrace"? "Can this be the way to share in and participate as ...

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