Keep On Keeping On Novels & Stories

Connecting. Forever.

Not the same as before. But enough. Somehow. Barely. Enough to keep going. Keep fighting. Keep surviving. For them. For us. For Kieran's memory. However long it takes. Whatever it costs. We'll make it. Probably. Maybe. Hopefully. One day at a time.

Then walked up, steady and slow. His face drained as I reached for the mic.

My marriage certificate had also fallen to the floor, along with another footprint on our photograph. I tried wiping away the shoe print, but the certificate became even dirtier. It seemed to tell me that Jason's love and my marriage to him would never be as pure as it was at the beginning. I called Jason. His dial tone was a rendition of 'Wedding March', which played up to the second bar before being cut off. Stunned, I called again, and was hung up again. By the third time, the call could not even get through. My number had been blocked.

Just keep on keepin' on! *** ©Skies Ambrielle Votes and comments are highly appreciated! Thank you, for reading!◉‿◉

Later, in the warmth of the November morning, she understood again what she had learned the first time and kept learning: that the thing she had been most afraid of was not the falling but the staying. The falling had been frightening in the way of all heights, immediate and vertiginous. But the staying was the longer fear, the one that required not a single act of courage but the daily repetition of it, the choosing every morning to remain in the room, and she had chosen it every morning for four years and the choosing had become the floor and the floor was

Just keep running. Just keep running. This is the mantra I keep repeating to myself as I push my legs as hard as they will go. Ignoring the burning in my lungs and the blood pouring down from the apex of my legs, I keep going. I can hear shouting behind me and heavy footsteps as they begin gaining on me.

“I don’t need one, baby. Just keep up.” End of Book Two

Not the last. Never the last.

And I always keep my promises. Always.