One Step Too Far Novels & Stories

Strangely, as much as the jacket reassured me, it also unnerved me. The first step towards Max was the hardest. I must have walked further than i thought because he was a littledistanceaway from me, but i could still see him perfectly. You would think that after the way I filled my head with motivation, it would be easy. "Just walk over to him, How hard can it be. Just one step, " I mumble to myself. "C'mon Calista, don't be a wuss." i take two deep breaths and go for it.

If it was still a wrong floor, it didn’t matter if she opened or close her eyes, she’d still be disappointed. ‘ A step, two steps and finally three steps' Haven counted silently in her mind. She didn’t even get to take the next step because the next moment, Haven ended up colliding into a very hard surface, it felt like she hit a strong chest or something, forcing her to lose her balance and fall back. Haven gasped loudly, feeling herself fall towards the floor and then something happened.

"A single step down." "Yes," he said. "Why not two?" she said. "The threshold room is lower than the kitchen by more than one step's worth. You could have put two steps and made each one smaller." He thought about this. He thought about the two-step option — he had considered it in December, the gentler descent, the step divided. He had drawn it and looked at it and then drawn the single step and understood the difference. "The single step is a decision," he said. "Two steps is a process. The body makes a decision on a single step — it crosses a threshold. On two steps the body manages a descent. The room needs the threshold, not the descent."

" After saying that it went quiet for a few seconds... I listened to my heart beat for a bit until I heard the footsteps again. They walked further and further away until I couldn't hear them anymore. Great! This was the biggest stepback I have ever taken. I was literally 98 steps forward but I took 90 back. I hope I don't lose the trust we already built. Because in honesty, I think we were doing fine. I'd hate having to kill her father alone.

Before I could ask them whether this is a lie or a dream or a joke, I realized that I moved back too far away from them. But I realized that when my foot slipped as the steps start from there, and I started falling backward...

I was the simple-minded fool that General Adelaide Knight had pulled from a pile of corpses on the battlefield. The poison had been too severe. I survived, but my mind never fully recovered. When people hit me or cursed at me, all I ever did was stare blankly and smile. Adelaide took pity on me. She brought me into her home and refused to let anyone mistreat me. She once said, "Reed may be a fool, but he's my whole life." And like a fool, I believed her. For five years, I followed her everywhere like a shadow. Then Fabian Ortega returned to the capital. He looked so much like me that we could almost have been brothers. He'd been poisoned, and none of the doctors knew how to save him. Hi

After a long staring, he let out a heavy sigh. He walked out without a word. “Finally!” she exclaimed. The only problem was how to get down from the table without breaking a bone. She slowly slid down and step her other foot, ‘Why do I have to be this small?’ she mentally ranted. She bravely jumped off since she can’t reach the floor. Unfortunately, she accidentally stepped on her wounded foot.”Aw!” She fell straight to the floor and hit her butt on the floor. Her door went open again, her neighbor looked at her saying like he was right all along. “I can see that you're fine.” Sarcasm was already part of his saliva and that will surely linger on every word he speaks.

“That human bitch –“ He takes one more step back. Only two steps left… The insult rankles in me, but I don’t let it get far. I take another step forward, a larger one this time. God, it’s so close, I have to time this just right… Xander reacts as I hoped he would, taking another step back, a big one, big enough that his next step will land just on the edge…

I tease with a smile, which closes like this he unlocks the door and walks out. The first step has already been taken, now the rest is missing.

His hands grabbing all over me making me flustered, I begin to slap his hands away in what looks like a bad attempt of patty cake. Finally he steps back, looking at me with a crazed look in his face. "You look like-" "Hell?" I interrupt. "I know, and don't care." Pulling my gaze from his muscled arms back to the task at hand. Escaping. I look over the ledge and swallow deep. I've never been one for heights. My stomach fills with butterflies as I slowly take a step back. Shit, how am I going to get down?