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PHOTO PROMPT © Sarah Ann Hall
Pause
Have you ever knocked over a vase? There’s a moment, just before it hits the ground, when time stops. It’s a barely perceptible phenomenon: the briefest pause; a state of absolute clarity at the tipping point between cause and effect.
The same thing happens when you destroy your life. You might set the events in motion years earlier: the feelings you repress, the anger you let burn, the one last drink you always have. The vase can fall for a very long time. In the pause before it shatters you see everything clearly, and spend eternity picking up the pieces.
Thomas Charles Henry 
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