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Paul Tyree

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2024

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To Listen or to Talk.... too much

Paul Tyree

Submitted to Contest #280

To be or not to be, is this really the actual question? This can be more than just an unanswered question, yet it can be the beginning of something more pressing. This is where our story starts at, two people speaking to one another about this or that. so why would it have to be or not to be? because I said it is and it was and it will be, that's why. But if that is the questions how can you define an actual answer? I may have to make it up as I go along, even though I do not wish to lie, even to my own self. Does that make sense? No it does...

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Ah! Alone at Last

Paul Tyree

Submitted to Contest #279

To begin my adventure, of seeking out the proof I needed, I would have to travel near and far, anywhere and everywhere. I would have to look in all the places I knew of and then explore places that I knew nothing about. I would even seek out any explanation of what had happened to cause this to place from the beginning. I first learned of this event, which was never televised or spoken about on TV or radio, since we were a town of past era communications, yes we were still using things that had long since been abandoned by most. It was when ...

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Imaginative Lost.....forever

Paul Tyree

Submitted to Contest #279

No matter which way I turn, I am going nowhere, unless you count and recount the steps from where you were to were you are. I turned to the left then to the right, I turn north and then I turn south, then I turned east then I turned west, all to no avail. It seems that no matter how I turned and where I turned, I was never sure where I had finally turned to or onto to. I was uncertain where I was at or whether I had actually even made any progress, because I was always going in circles and it was beginning to feel like I was trapped inside a...

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At Last the Secret's revealed

Paul Tyree

The beginning started with how the individuals who were standing around the bed, where the soon to be departing family member, would be lifeless and at best, finally at peace. Of course, this can only happen, when one has made peace with their maker or if they asked for absolution for all their "past and present" "sins", can they then "cross over" to the other side, no matter which side that may be. It is hard for anyone present to fully understand, no matter how great or how small, a surprise can be, when with one's last breath, they utt...

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My closure with her email(ed) Goodbye

Paul Tyree

What started out as "just another mail", turned into a very long and somewhat detailed explanation of what happened that led up to the moment of deciding to do what she did. Yes it was a surprise that I was just now receiving this email, as it had somehow become "lost". I was not sure how to feel about this email, since the date on it was "stamped" with today's date, only 20 years ago. I read over the email several times before i finally grasped hold of what I was reading was from someone who had been deceased for 5 of those years previously...

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To Have Loved and Lost is a Longing Forever

Paul Tyree

Submitted to Contest #277

To have loved and then lost, to have lost that which makes one complete, then never know if that which was lost will ever return. Returning to moment it was lost is never a guarantee of the same that was lost will be the same that returns. The love that two people have, maybe not in the beginning, is a love that will never fade or be forgotten, especially if this be the first love or the first time being in love. It is indeed the hardest love to ever let go much less to be released. It can linger in one's mind and can become a long obsession...

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Wicked works Downstairs

Paul Tyree

Submitted to Contest #277

How does Wicked work downstairs, because Virtuous works upstairs, and yes there are two separate floors or levels that are set between them. Both have ideas that can either work for you or work against you. While Wicked wishes you would not succeed, virtuous wishes you would. Wicked has plans to ruin your day and to wreak havoc on your life in general, Virtuous wants to intervene in preventing Wicked's untimely demise of your happiest of moments. How does Wicked plan these unholy moments to become reality? Most are aware that Wicked has neve...

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Some secrets are best kept secret, yet more exciting when spoken about

Paul Tyree

Submitted to Contest #276

Relationships and friendships are hard to distinguish between one and the other, because they are considered separate, yet similar in more ways than one. How can we know which is the beginning of the other or which happens at the same time, where they become inter woven as one? Seems that most of the time we find ourselves wrapped up in the moment, wrapped up in the discovery of something new, that we lose sight of which is which and whether one may lead to the other. How can a secret be kept, if the secret should never be kept at all? How c...

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Life has its own ideas, yet so do People

Paul Tyree

Submitted to Contest #276

Life always decides its own way of doing things, yet it can surprise you in the most unusual ways at the most impromptu times. I have to say sometimes meeting others, who may become your friends later, can surely "catch you off guard". It was one of these times, that as life was reintroducing itself, so was my new friend. I was really enjoying our day out and was not sure how to reply or respond to the new adventure, which was long distance hiking, that we came across a steep cliff on the path that we was taking as a short cut. I never knew ...

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Endless Time does Eventually End.

Paul Tyree

Submitted to Contest #275

To better understand the consequences of believing something that may or may not end, it is better to only half believe it ever existed. Anyone who wants to believe they will live forever (here on earth) is almost always fooling themselves with the notion that they are invincible. This is the story of someone who was out of time from the day they were born, and yet were living their own lives as wreckless and as hapless as they could possibly live it. This started even from birth where they followed a simple idea and expanded on it with brut...

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Following the Cat

Paul Tyree

Submitted to Contest #275

Follow the neighbor's cat was always something I had dreamed about over the last month. Of course, it was nearing the one month that cats, along with other ghouls and goblins, were revered and "worshipped". I was not looking forward to the actual moment, yet I was not so much dreading that month either. Okay, back to the point at hand about my neighbor's cat. It was a solid black cat with a temperament and disposition to match its appearance. As I was getting ready to leave my apartment this one morning, there the cat was purring and trying ...

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