Silence

We're coming for you, stay put, you understand.

Silence, and then almost a giggle, thin as mist.

Don't come.

The word trailed, overtaken by a series of knocks and the rising pitch of that underwater drone.

How many names had to be added before the vault would finally close, or open, for good? Fear strung at the back of my tongue, a purely physical sense, like the time I'd inhaled powdered bleach.

Even the act of writing in my field book felt superstitious, almost foolish, but Mark's silence as he watched the bone, my name, spoke for all of us.

Silence collapsed quick as a stone in water, broken by the distant shudder of old pipes and the faint, deliberate clatter of salt raining from somewhere unseen.

Susanna pressed a trembling thumb along her lower lip, a childhood tick she'd never lost.

If the vault records us, she murmured, it's not finished.

As people can see, I have a site called silenceteaches.com. And essentially, because that's what...

Silence has taught me through the power of centering prayer.

Silence has taught me who I am.

And it's, it's helped me, as you said earlier, it's helped me break through my own limiting beliefs.

Take it, you know, overcome fears that are just thoughts that aren't really true that I tell myself, but, but think are true, but they're not true.

The captain glared at him for a while, flapped his hand again, glared still harder, and at last broke out with a villainous oath.

Silence there between decks.

You were addressing me, sir? said the doctor.

And when the ruffian had told him with another oath that this was so, replied, I have only one thing to say to you, sir, that if you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel.

George Merry was at the door spitting and spluttering over some bad-tasting medicine, but at the first word of the doctor's proposal he swung round with a deep flush and cried, "No!" and swore.

Silver struck the barrel with his open hand.

"Silence!" he roared and looked about him positively like a lion.

"Doctor," he went on in his usual tones, "I was thinking of that, knowing as how you had a fancy for the boy.

He clenched his fists and looked away.

sometimes after such a struggle a strange feeling of rage and power entered into him it made his whole body tremble he thought it was an evil spirit tempting him it used to whisper in his ear but he could not understand the words and as the years went on they spoke less with one another Silence and hatred lay heavy upon that home.

The man's black, curly hair was already streaked with grey.

As for the woman, she grew old, old, but she never changed.

Then, with a final, agonized howl, it turned and fled into the darkness.

Silence fell, thick and suffocating.

We didn't follow.

The island had claimed enough lives for now, and the beast was retreating, nursing its wounds.

The dogmen haunted my every step.

Until one night, when the stalking stopped, replaced by something far worse.

Silence.

The kind that presses down on your chest and whispers that the storm is coming.

O brave curve upwards and outwards O despair of the downward tilting, despair still beautiful as a great star one has watched all night wheeling down under the hills.

Silence widens and darkens.

Voice and desires have dropped out of sight.

I am all alone, dreaming she would come and kiss me.