Not Anymore Alive

By Kiara Hawking

A poetic journey through short stories about high mountains, the inner occultism within us.

Our lives today struggle between love and loneliness. I think we will defend love until death. Because love is similar to death when it ends.

• Language: English
• Publisher: eBookIt.com
• Release date: Feb 11, 2021
• ISBN: 9781456636883

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Letter

Vivre

The engineer, an old man and a magician like her, always said that this time it would be the last for Wusley. The petrol cans needed to be changed and the gear clutch rattled. As for the steering wheel rims, they were ready to cut. But somehow he managed every time to make the old thing work. But I'm not sure if he can make such a long journey, he told Mary, wiping the wrench with a swab. Maria and I and Gusley ate our bread, do not look at you as you rejuvenate, he told her as usual. teasing. Mary looked at him and smiled with difficulty. Mary was always smiling, whatever she was in front of life she had learned to smile. That's how her mother had learned her. We live in the city she said, we are nothing villagers to show feelings. So even now, she smiled at Mr. Elias, paid the bittersweet bill without protest, and put Gusley on the road with difficulty, cursing her luck for the long journey that awaited her.

Going out on the boulevard, she felt Gusley creaking under her feet but she believed that the old caravan was able, like her, despite her age to complete the journey. She opened the window, letting the horrible heat of the sun rush into the car and lit a cigarette, dangerously balancing between driving, her butt already sweating and her need to take her first breath. She closed her eyes for a moment and let the smoke enter her lungs for half a second. Sublime. After all, she had smoked her first cigarette in this