Sign In

Explore Unputdownable Stories

Thousands of free stories. Support your favorites when you're ready.

Showing stories tagged with #mortality Clear filter

Burrfoot
Burrfoot

Hero's Death

Darkness overwhelms me, I can't open my eyes. The dead and dying surround me, I can hear their cries. I no longer feel the pain of battle, my end is drawing near.

28 5 96 words
nikujagagirl
nikujagagirl

Time

Remember those times when you were little and you wished you were a grown up. I can remember how I would fantasize about all the cool adult things I would get to do. I regret that everyday.

14 1 350 words
sjw
sjw

"Tick Tock"

The clock ticks on creating a past, why oh why does it have to be so fast. The seconds turn to minutes, minutes turning to hours.

36 21 51 words
TaintedTulip
TaintedTulip

Live

Live each week. As your last my friends. For everyone knows. The current trends. Live each week. As your last my friends. For everyone knows. When it must end. Live each day. As your last my friends.

16 3 118 words
bataatti
bataatti

The Navesink Banks

He sips his wine. Setting down his glass, he stands up. Walking around his library, lit only by candles, he hums a song.

10 3 115 words
mort
mort

Opusses

I write to many opusses. Each and every day. I write so many opusses. I have a lot to say. I write so many opusses. This I must confess. As one day my opusses. Will simply be the best.

24 5 59 words
ashhkat
ashhkat

Not Afraid

So long and goodnight. You're gone but it's alright. I'll let the candle burn. One day It'll be my turn. No tears shed tonight. Peace is shinning bright. I'm done with sad.

22 4 77 words
erzamarie
erzamarie

Faces Of Death

People say death has no face but that's not true. For death has a face and many have seen it. It just differs from person to person.

6 2 158 words
Delilah
Delilah

Goodnight

No use knocking Now the door has been closed, You took your citrus bite As was supposed. You fell asleep For a thousand years Like Sleeping Beauty Only many more tears.

38 11 110 words
Jamtots
Jamtots

Light

I drift and I fly, Floating to the sky, Soaring so high, With a final goodbye. Breath has left me, Despite my plea, But in harmony, I'll let things be.

36 3 49 words
wolfie
wolfie

Winding

Lie down and listen to your darling heart: The fat beats of life, Are they further apart. Geometry of blood In veined, vital wrist Does patterned pulse Ever so slightly desist.

56 5 123 words
littleone
littleone

Disease

I feel a deadly disease Spread through my veins, Making me go through Extremely sore pains. I feel a deadly disease Running in my blood. Taking me through mood swings, I'm just no good.

8 0 70 words
beckyboo130
beckyboo130

Death

Death, It is something that we are faced with everyday. Whether it be the death of another human or the death of an innocent flower. It is something that we are all familiar with.

10 0 438 words
leelee101
leelee101

Snapshot #2

Here's a little story Of a man whose time is short The disease that is his nemesis And the battle that's being fought The regular hard worker He never took a pill Mr.

34 7 215 words
Delilah
Delilah

Baby

I watch you on the screen In your little bubble, Safe and sound, no trouble, In a world calm and serene, There you don't know the hardships Outside your little carriage, Affairs of money, health and...

24 18 137 words
crowncottage
crowncottage

Mothers

On a new estate in England, somewhere in Milton Keynes, Mother went out shopping, for brie, baguettes and beans.

48 20 220 words
misslittleDHP
misslittleDHP

All That We Are

#household Born unto this world All new and pure Growing up Of life we learn more Who we are Can be defined By nurture and nature Are we bad or kind.

44 8 69 words
Delilah
Delilah

Human Allotropy

#household Allotropes of carbon, A thousand different moulds, Each one of us a story. Nine months 'til we're told, Then we learn and we stumble Not only as infants Into a world So new and...

34 8 122 words
Barknbite
Barknbite

Rings Count

In all the 329 years, 4 months, 6 days I've lived, I've seen chamber pots filled and long since emptied.

34 16 201 words
Jamtots
Jamtots

Sweet Serenity

I lie here and rest, Tired on my bed, Surrounded by family, In my heart and my head. I have grown so old, And my time has come, So here alone I wait, To the sound of the drum.

44 10 125 words
wolfie
wolfie

If I should Die

If I should die Think only this of me: 'Thank fuck he's dead. ' That should be the elegy. Don't glorify the life I led.

74 34 184 words
iPuss
iPuss

In The Morning

In the morning our eyes first met, In the evening we could not forget. In the morning our bond grew strong, In the evening it wouldn't be long.

36 11 165 words
HeatherAnne
HeatherAnne

Beautiful Death?

Do you ever think about what happens when we die. Do we go above to that perfect haven in the sky. Or is living just a cycle, vicious in its ways. Nothing to look forward to, when we live out our...

72 11 87 words
juttaghold
juttaghold

War Tides

The vibrating cords… Like the strings on a guitar Singing their last song. Tremolant discords Signals death’s final moment Lingering hope, stilled.

12 4 108 words
Previous Page 11 Next