Cosmic

Feverish clamour to be heard by jaded audiences. She muted her call and closed her eyes.

Sinking into deep silent space. Decelerating the Universe.

Cosmic web of curated possibilities abbreviated into finite coherent values.

A fire lit up inside her.

cosmic /ˈkɒzmɪk/
adjective
adjective: cosmic
relating to the universe or cosmos, especially as distinct from the earth.
“cosmic matter”
inconceivably vast.

Punctuation

She absorbed his silence. Cold. Metallic.
Her solitary introspection punctuated with myriad ‘might have beens.’

 

punctuation /pʌŋ(k)tʃʊˈeɪʃ(ə)n/noun

the marks, such as full stop, comma, and brackets, used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and to clarify meaning.

Subtraction

Fossilised words. Permanent scars.

She wasn’t willing to give up on him.

Not just yet.

So she decided to stay. At the exact moment he chose to walk away.

Unfathomable anguish. Steely resolve.

subtraction 
/səbˈtrakʃn/
noun
the process or skill of taking one number or amount away from another.
subtraction of this figure from the total”

 

Mirror

 

‘I won’t drag you down,’ he said in quiet anguish.

Her world slowly shattered into pieces.

Each shard etching its memory in blood.

His strength dwindled to emptiness in a twisted world.

Her heart froze.

She remembered, she knew how to forget.

Mirror /mɪ/ Noun
a surface, typically of glass coated with a metal amalgam, which reflects a clear image.
mirror

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Continuum

 

‘Push the Frankfurt meeting to 14:00. My flight’s delayed,’ she emailed the office.

She glanced at the motley crew of co-passengers.

He gave her a slow smile.

Moors, horses, castles

Ballrooms

Swashbuckling Knights

Conspiracies

A bloody war

She smiled back.

Her soul consumed with rage and vengeance.

 

Continuum /kənˈtɪnjʊəm/noun
a continuous sequence in which adjacent elements are not perceptibly different from each other, but the extremes are quite distinct.