Write about a character who loves cloud gazing.

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“Love in the Clouds” by Kathryn Gabrielle

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Classic movies do indulge in cloud gazing. Lots of dreaming and imagining pictures in the clouds. Big ships. Angels. Faces of loved ones. Good, positive things. The classic movie I am thinking of is the old version of Back Street starring Charles Boyer as Walter Saxel and Margaret Sullivan as Ray Smith.Charles Boyer has a nasty habit of dumping women while they are laying down in a field of hay looking up at the clouds. In Back Street, Walter Saxel is a "cad" who promises to wait for Ray Smith (Margaret Sullivan) at the Riverboat landing. He...

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“The Spirit Clouds” by Margaret Bravo

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Sensitive content- Covid Pandemic Deaths.Despite of all my good intentions and silent whispered prayers, the man still died alone in the small hours of the morning. He was there when I stepped onto the makeshift Covid ICU for my shift at 7am. Someone on the night shift had placed a towel over his face and disconnected the intravenous lines but, he still looked lonely and untended. I had an irrational thought to place a blanket over his lower body, lest he get chilled but then the blaring alarm of a ventilator a few beds down jolted me i...

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“Clouds Shaped Like Her” by Cameron Hara

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I stared out of my bedroom window, still sitting on my bed in the clothes from the previous day that I had fallen asleep in. It was supposed to rain today as it had for most of April but instead, as I gazed through the glass with my chin resting in my palm, I saw the sun peaking through fluffy white clouds pressed up against a blue sky. Despite the unusually pleasant day outside my body felt heavy and unable to move. My throat started to burn and I found myself wishing it was raining like the forecast had said it would so ...

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“Enamored by a Cloud” by CarlottaAne'th Williams-Watts

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Enamored by a Cloud! “Chare’ how are you this beautiful day?” says her therapist while Chare’ is driving down the road. Chare’ responds, “I find that I am at peace, peace, but to give you an idea of how I truly feel this beautiful day let me share a chain of events. My day began with a shower, as I completed my every day rising routine my attention, my eye was captured by the gazing of the sun through my window. I thought to myself it must be a beautiful day, it has to be, as I stared deeply out the window a little longer than usual. In sur...

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“The Fishermen Song” by R. Sadeh

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Have you ever spoken to the rain? She did. She’d lift her head up, gaze at the clouds, and listen closely. “Listen.” She’d say. “Listen to the rain.” I'd look up at the greying clouds but hear nothing. Because the rain never spoke to me. It only spoke to her. I wish I knew what it said. What secrets they shared. I always imagined it spoke in whispers. Something so beautiful. I remember the day we sat by the lake. The trees waltzed with the wind around us. Autumn leaves broke away and swayed in twirls towards the infinite...

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“Future Gazing” by Marty B

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“Damn, there is no way she can make that.” The boy said looking up at her on the stairway landing, the light from the 2nd floor window vibrating around her. Dense bass and drums with screaming vocals was pouring out of someone’s device, adding to the chaos of the high school lunch period. Tali held her board by the truck, it dangled next to her long baggy canvas pants while she looked down the stairs stretching into the first floor hallway. Her arms, lean and dark, looked extra long against her white tank top. The crowd coming from t...

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“Almond Blossoms” by Oren Asaf

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I don’t remember when exactly I started gazing at the clouds and contemplating their meaning, but I remember why I started: I wanted to talk to God, who dwelled in the sky. I was a child, after all, and I lacked originality: He was an old man with a long white beard, white caftan, and wrinkled handsome face. That’s how I started gazing at the clouds so that I could directly talk to “him” like a friend. Whenever I was sad or angry or felt left out on the playground, I looked up at the sky and talked to God about my disappointments, and asked...

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“Unusual Wisdom” by Minerva Noiropp

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Every day, I have a routine. It's not the kind of routine where I do the same thing in the same order every day. It's the kind where I have a list of things to get through. What is my list of things that I do? Well, I eat on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. I fast on Tuesdays and Saturdays to correct the malefic energy in my birth chart. I exorcise the energies around me and do meditations. Then I read the Bible. While I motivate through all my morning chores, I play video games, flip through social media and read the fa...

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“The Snow Day I Never Forgot” by Isabel PerezViruet

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It was a Friday afternoon when the clouds talked back.There had been a special feeling in the air. The world was quiet; breathless. Time itself had paused in our neighborhood.After a few moments of listening, I ran to my window and threw open the curtains - yes! The neighborhood was blanketed by the peaceful quilt of snow. Thick flakes hung in the air like pixie dust. Indeed, to my 9- year-old mind, it wouldn't have surprised me if fairies themselves had personally enchanted the day just for me. My small face broke into an enourmous smile.Na...

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“Picnics and Cloudgazing” by Jana Diehl

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“Hurry up, Gwen!”Lucia is waiting for her outside, leaning on the white-picket fence, her ankles crossed. The warm sun is shining down on her, and her golden-blonde hair almost seems to glow in the light. Gwen has to squint her eyes when she looks at her, because she doesn’t fancy going blind, thank-you-very-much.“Give me a second,” she chides.“But you’re so slow!”Gwen rolls her eyes, but she doesn’t say anything — some things shouldn’t be dignified with a response, after all — and instead opts to put on her shoes and jacket so she can ...

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“High Noon” by Lexi Cherry

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Nothin' violates your rights more than the creepin' mid-day sun in mid-June, especially if you workin’ outdoors. When I woke up this mornin', Mama told me it was my birthday. She has her own way of rememberin' that kinda thing. I think the way she tracks my birthday is by the way the sun sets, or doesn’t, rather. She always tells me I was born on the longest day of the year, and the hottest accordin' to her memory, but all the pregnant ladies are always sweatin’, never complainin’ though. “Complainin' don’t do nothin’ but make you hotter and...

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“What Do You See?” by J L Jones

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"This is the perfect kind of day, my favorite," I said to myself, looking out the kitchen window. Our backyard, green and lush, with fresh cut grass and full of beautiful spring blooms, was part of my view. The rest, a bright blue sunny sky dotted with large, white fluffy clouds. Cumulus clouds, if I recall correctly from middle school Earth Science. I was never much for science; I was an artsy girl, a creative. I loved music and art, even fancied myself a poet for a spell. I loved to lay on my back, searching cloudy skies for those shaped...

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“Cloudmother” by Suzette Ward

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Andrew jumped when Peter tapped him on the shoulder. He'd been staring up at the sky instead of paying attention to the time or the crowd around him.Peter looked up. “What do you see up there? A spaceship? A missile? Should we be running?”Andrew gave him a small smile. “No, it’s just a nice day. The sky is blue, the sun is shining, the clouds are huge and fluffy.”“Wow, you look at you getting all poetic.”“I guess staring at the sky is better than hitting the bottle.”Peter stared at him a moment. Are you doing okay?&n...

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“The Escape” by Brandon Dow

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He ran, his breath coming in ragged sharp gasps. Slowing, his fingertips brushing the velvety soft tops of the lupine growing in the mountain valley, this is the spot, he thought. Settling down, he nestled his head on his backpack and turned his gaze toward his intended target. “Roger, engines look good, fuel’s full, ready to burn” Captain Rian said, his hand smoothly flying over the pre-launch console. “Tank and boosters are green, we’re good for liftoff Houston.” “Roger that Captain, standby for launch in T-minus five, four,...

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“Streams of Milk” by Chipo Asante

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I used to pretend that the merging and parting of clouds were the Gods of the skies, fighting. Rain and thunder and snow and sun were the falling dust they sent flying. Streams of milk up above would migrate from one side to the other, travelling to places unknown. Maybe heaven.I was staring at the sky on Monday, in all of its patchy wonder. Silky swirls drifted from east to west as I observed from the ground below. 24 degrees Celsius out, partly cloudy. Cirrus clouds moved like wind blowing. Altocumulus ones looked like popcorn, not fully c...

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Write about a character who loves cloud gazing.

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✍️ 55 stories

“Love in the Clouds” by Kathryn Gabrielle

“The Spirit Clouds” by Margaret Bravo

“Clouds Shaped Like Her” by Cameron Hara

“Enamored by a Cloud” by CarlottaAne'th Williams-Watts

“The Fishermen Song” by R. Sadeh

“Future Gazing” by Marty B

“Almond Blossoms” by Oren Asaf

“Unusual Wisdom” by Minerva Noiropp

“The Snow Day I Never Forgot” by Isabel PerezViruet

“Picnics and Cloudgazing” by Jana Diehl

“High Noon” by Lexi Cherry

“What Do You See?” by J L Jones

“Cloudmother” by Suzette Ward

“The Escape” by Brandon Dow

“Streams of Milk” by Chipo Asante

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