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  • Story Listed as: Fiction For Adults
  • Theme: Inspirational
  • Subject: Courage / Heroism
  • Published: 08/18/2011

It's Fear

By Dorsey Baker
Born 1949, from NLR /Arkansas, United States
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A force greater than gravity is trying to weigh me down! It's creeping into my room like a deadly fog and it's trying to suffocate me! It's battling my common sense and enraging my insanity! As the clouds roll in dark and deep, they're speaking discouraging words to me. This thing is coming after me in a shape and a form that is larger than life itself. I see it coming! I see it coming! It has fiery eyes! It has its angry mouth! It has its foul smell! Its tongue tastes bitter as it licks itself with rapid strokes! I hear it in the darkness and it sounds so strange. It's a silent shadow. I don't hear its footsteps, but I know it's following me. It's following me! I sense its presence all around me and it's screaming my name out loud! There is no place where I am that it is not! It's breathing down my neck! It hasn't caught me; but it's making progress. I'm in the street. Every corner I turn, it turns with me. Every step I take, it takes with me! Every thought I think, it thinks with me! It's trying to stop mt heart from beating, it's trying to make me shed my skin! It hates my blood; but it wants to make me bleed! It's trying to take my strength and courage and run away with it, but one thing it don't know; it don't know me! It's trying to catch me off guard; but my spirit is wide awake! Its shaky and discouraging voice I despise. It's fear!

It's Fear(Dorsey Baker) A force greater than gravity is trying to weigh me down! It's creeping into my room like a deadly fog and it's trying to suffocate me! It's battling my common sense and enraging my insanity! As the clouds roll in dark and deep, they're speaking discouraging words to me. This thing is coming after me in a shape and a form that is larger than life itself. I see it coming! I see it coming! It has fiery eyes! It has its angry mouth! It has its foul smell! Its tongue tastes bitter as it licks itself with rapid strokes! I hear it in the darkness and it sounds so strange. It's a silent shadow. I don't hear its footsteps, but I know it's following me. It's following me! I sense its presence all around me and it's screaming my name out loud! There is no place where I am that it is not! It's breathing down my neck! It hasn't caught me; but it's making progress. I'm in the street. Every corner I turn, it turns with me. Every step I take, it takes with me! Every thought I think, it thinks with me! It's trying to stop mt heart from beating, it's trying to make me shed my skin! It hates my blood; but it wants to make me bleed! It's trying to take my strength and courage and run away with it, but one thing it don't know; it don't know me! It's trying to catch me off guard; but my spirit is wide awake! Its shaky and discouraging voice I despise. It's fear!

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