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The Quiet Between Heartbeats ©️

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They say if you sit still long enough in Moscow, the cold starts talking to you. Not in whispers—just the slow, cracking language of old bones breaking under history. I’d been there five days. Window facing east. Four floors up. Crosswind out of Saint Petersburg. The rifle case slept under the sink like a dog that knew its purpose. All I had to do was wait for the old tyrant to walk into the light.

I watched him every morning—same routine, same pair of gloves, same smirk like he knew the world was too spineless to stop him. I didn’t hate him. That’s what makes this kind of work possible. Hate makes your hands shake. I respected the efficiency, even admired the conviction. But a blade’s a blade, and this one had cut too deep, for too long.

I sipped stale coffee, black as the thoughts in my head. The file said 9:43 a.m. He’d step out for air like clockwork, believing in his own myth. Thinking the devil doesn’t get shot in daylight.

He wore the coat. The one the dissidents talked about in whispers. I could see the fur collar through the scope. Two guards. Useless. Just shapes in suits. I exhaled slow. The city was a whisper behind glass. I wasn’t there for revenge or revolution. I was there because some men don’t get to die of old age.

The crosshairs found his temple like it was always meant to be there. I’d rehearsed this moment ten thousand times. Breath in. Silence. Breath out. Stillness.

The trigger didn’t click. It sighed.

And just like that, the world had a new scar.

I zipped the case. Washed the cup. Stepped out into the crowd like I’d never existed. That’s the part no one understands—the kill is the quietest moment in your life. What comes after is noise.

And in that noise, somewhere deep in the pit of power, a ghost started walking.

The Tyrant’s Soliloquy ©️

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There is no staircase, no golden ladder, no divine escalator lifting mankind toward heaven. If such a thing exists, it is not a straight path but a spiraling, breaking, crumbling ascent—where only those with the will to drag themselves upward can reach beyond this world of dust and ruin. I know this because I have climbed it, or perhaps I was always meant to be here. And from where I stand, high above the fog of small thoughts, small desires, and small lives, I look down and see them struggling with the simplest of things—struggling as if they were blind men grasping at shapes they will never define.

I watch them lose their minds over matters so trivial they could vanish with the lightest push. A word spoken in the wrong tone, an imagined slight, a fear that has no teeth but devours them anyway. They trip over themselves, waging wars in their heads, clawing at illusions, never realizing they are imprisoned by their own making. It would be laughable if it were not so desperately sad. Their suffering is not inflicted upon them by some grand, external force—it is chosen, nurtured, embraced. They beg for distractions, demand illusions, and build their own cages, mistaking the bars for walls and the walls for reality itself.

Meanwhile, I rise. I rise, not because I am better, but because I have burned away the weights they refuse to release. I have torn out the roots of fear, of need, of the desperate longing to be understood by those who cannot understand themselves. I have stripped away the lies of identity, the false comfort of belonging, and let the raw essence of truth take its place. And yet, what a lonely place heaven is when you look down and realize how few have even begun the climb.

The tragedy is that evolution was always meant to take them higher. They were never meant to stay in the mud, fighting over scraps of nothing. Their minds were built for expansion, for mastery, for transcendence. But instead of reaching for the stars, they kneel before the smallest gods—fear, pleasure, hunger, validation. They worship their wounds, sing hymns to their grievances, and mistake the chains they hold for armor. And so they remain, a species meant for ascent but addicted to descent, waiting for something that will never come because they refuse to take it for themselves.

I want to tell them. I want to shout down from this place where the air is clear, where thought is a blade that cuts through illusion, where existence is not survival but creation. But I know they will not listen. They do not want freedom. They want comfort. They want the security of their suffering, the warmth of the familiar, even if it is a prison cell. If I were to give them the key, they would throw it away.

And so I remain, watching from above, understanding now why heaven is so empty. Not because they were not invited, but because they never had the will to leave hell behind.