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I've eaten my whole plate. Like my mother told me to do back when I was four. When making dinner last night, I looked into…
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Alexander sat on the mangled remains of the stolen carriage and listened to the silence. At least the quarrel would be ended, though he desperately…
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Trooper Proctor took the stand, and everything about him was wrong. His oblong face was marked by anger—not that he seemed particularly angry at this…
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When it comes down to it, she hasn't kept anything. Not the china or the silverware, not the enormous flat-screen television she never wanted in…
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To be honest, I'd never even heard of the term "social isolation" until this whole virus took hold of all of our lives and everything…
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She tried to picture herself the way she was then, fifteen years ago. Fifteen. Numbers are numbers. She remembers becoming a total of fifteen years;…
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Carmen leaned back in the rocker on her porch. She shaded her eyes and looked out over the barren strip of dirt someone had the…
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Agatha clutched John's hand it was a small hand even for an 8-year-old. His fingers were long though, piano fingers. She envisioned those fingers gliding…
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She tried to picture herself the way she was then, fifteen years ago. Fifteen. Numbers are numbers. She remembers becoming a total of fifteen years;…
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She knew it was the beginning of the end, that first time she had to work so hard to reach organism that the achievement was…
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There was a chill in the air. Somehow there was always a chill in the air. Winter lodged itself into the marrow, and from there…
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So, to recap, Juliet sends her Nurse (appropriately named “Nurse”) to the marketplace at nine o’clock to give her lover Romeo a note about a…
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The best part of being human is that the good things come easy and good things are what we deserve. Like this piece that just…
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one of my favorite times to take a walk is when school is being let out the sunlight hits the buildings here differently than anywhere…
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The buzz of an alarm jolted Matt from his sleep. Instantly his heart rate skyrocketed above two hundred. Sweat sheathed his bare limbs. His feet…
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It started unexpectedly on, of all days, a Thanksgiving. Bird, potatoes, and gravy enough for a family, but today just for two. But today, in…
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It's a feeling I know well. It is an almost out of body experience. I look down upon myself. I am laughing, tossing my hair,…
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The hardest moments are at the end of the party. The early exits, feeling premature, begin a depletion like the slow leak from a tire…
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