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Klaire
Klaire

What Ifs

Lately I've been thinking, What if I had said yes. Maybe I wouldn't have gotten, Into this whole mess. What if I was never born. What if I'd chosen right.

16 0 176 words
HingAling24
HingAling24

Dreaming Is Believing

I dream so much. I dream at night. I daydream in the day. In the abundance of light. I dream in sadness and I dream in wealth. I dream in sickness. I dream of health.

24 2 93 words
vieromero
vieromero

Basket Case

I'm not elated, I just want to be sedated I'm tired of being frustrated, I'm tired of waiting Waiting for something but I don't know what The nausea the suspense causes me Makes me feel like I'm...

4 0 152 words
missingyou
missingyou

Sometimes

Sometimes we are all a little rebellious. Fighting for things we don't know. Looking for a way out. The right way to go. Sometimes we are a little scared. Unsure of what to do. The choices to make.

20 7 111 words
HingAling24
HingAling24

My Name Isn't Earl

I'm insane.....

16 0 73 words
leelee101
leelee101

Note To Self

Everything you are is at odds with you Say you hate the old but you're scared of the new Decisive in your mind, your head sits on the fence Enter with a swagger but no confidence Lay the best laid...

46 21 242 words
naojade
naojade

Epilogue

I lay on my back atop the rambling hill, my vision clouded by a deep and alluring blue whilst the sun beat down on me, heating my damp skin.

20 9 259 words
HeatherAnne
HeatherAnne

Opuss.

It's not just a place, Not a language or 'type', It sure isn't temporary, And worth all the hype. It's not just a phase, Mom, Not preppy or 'in', It's the sort of society That's there thick or thin.

54 0 97 words
Burrfoot
Burrfoot

Hmmm

My senses are on alert, I think a few will get hurt. We've been here before, At least twice or more. Guard your feelings well, Sometimes it's hard to tell.

30 28 93 words
Thomtree
Thomtree

Orchid

I like to walk. I get a great deal of thinking done when I'm on my own and surrounded by empty fields or darkened by tree shadows in high summer.

2 0 267 words
sammielee46
sammielee46

My Serendipity.

#acrostic. Writing poetry,. Really is my therapy,. It helps me resolve,. Terror if truth be told,. I love to play with my imagination,. Not only does this relieve life's frustration, but it,.

34 20 63 words
mohawke
mohawke

Player

I met a man at the bar, who stank of wine and played guitar. Under blue light of moldy stage he weaved incantations like a mystic sage, casting a spells through smoky air upon bloodshot gaze.

14 4 184 words
dannijane
dannijane

Flu

An sick today. All alone in my room. All I take is 5 different pills. And all I get a drowsy high that doesn't go away. Better than am down now. But I can't do much too.

2 2 124 words
Larko
Larko

Expectations

Within Tattered mindsets, pre-recorded joy. An ilustrious illusion of false elation brews. Cautiously observing routines of a daily reality. Never changing that predetermined fantasy.

16 2 47 words
AJBrown
AJBrown

My Good Friend Death And I

My dear friend death My one true friend You've been with me From Start To End. The only one not to leave, The only one I've left to please.

22 2 98 words
SSK
SSK

I Don't Know

I dont know why I feel, The way I feel I do, I don't know what is wrong with me, Or why I feel so blue. I don't know what to see. I dont know my belief.

20 0 126 words
leelee101
leelee101

Five Deadly Minutes

Shake the sweet subconscious. Covers let me be. Pillows plumped and pretty. Please hold my dreams for me. I'll leave them where I left them. Scattered on fields of white. Please do not disturb.

44 18 88 words
wolfie
wolfie

Speciesfish

In this aquarium I noticed Two fish. Both of the same species Alike in size, colour, shape.

42 11 154 words
Delilah
Delilah

Mind Over Matter

If I in heart and I in mind. Go swiftly through the trees. And I in heart and I in mind. Let bracken snap and birds scree,. If I in heart and I in mind. Follow Sense's plea,.

32 3 77 words
jackalice
jackalice

Glass House No.6

You know, I didn't realise this steeple was so high, And I am still climbing, ever climbing guys, 5 months and 236 long hard steps, And me with all these crazy words in my head And I suddenly realise...

22 12 109 words
mulishwhim
mulishwhim

The Sky And I

Ah, the sky She waits for me Despite the cold The malice The you.

10 0 115 words
SSK
SSK

Stric'ly Thai

I write deeper when I smoke. Like I reach within for hope, Take two dimensions worlds apart, As I breathe through every toke. I don't need to fell a foe, Cos I seize; then fell a flow.

12 3 165 words
eddie12309
eddie12309

Failure

Dark Safe Familiar Retreat My bedroom; Bed Safe Secure Cocooned My own private womb. Regress Curl Foetal Warm Just like a child; Block Noise Hidden Sight Just for a little while.

16 5 58 words
Pawsy
Pawsy

The Vagaries of Life

This is just an experiment at a short story which I've never tried before. I do not know its beginnings or end!. I just wrote the first thing that came into my head, ie., it wasn't planned.

14 0 414 words
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