Her brand-new high-heeled shoes
came in the mail today.
I watched her
try them on in the mirror—
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November 14th
I can hear my mom’s voice echoing through my head calling my siblings and I to have breakfast. I remember her asking my youngest sibling, Mya, if she wants more bacon. Bacon was her favorite. I remember Dad telling the twins, George and Myles, to hush up about who gets the last pancake.
Isn’t it so beautiful?
The earth is spinning, the wind is blowing, the birds are singing and we are breathing.
We are living
We are existing.
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Despite no sinewed ties,
sardines remain still,
too tethered to brothers’ sullied flesh and blood.
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It was the year 2020, the month of September. All right, that was way too serious.
It was a dark and stormy night!
The curly fog emanates throughout the cresting waves
Pushing, pushing, pushing the life of the sea floor towards
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If you travel northeast a little, up into the foothills of Maine, you will find the small town of Lovelen. With its hidden rocky beaches and its narrow winding roads, it possesses a house that many depict as haunted.
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Цирк (Tsyrk). I was reading the word again. A smile slid from ear to ear on my face. This moment was something I’d wanted since the minute we’d stepped onto that bus. I was going to the Giant Fountains.
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Normal people do not see the things I see. Normal people do not see the shadows shift and twist when no one seems to be looking. Normal people do not look out of the corner of their eye and know they're going to see something that is not there.
They had nothing to say to each other. They were standing across from one another, blank faces. Nobody knew what to say. What were they supposed to say? It was like they didn’t know each other anymore. They did it to save everyone, right? It was the only way.
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sea turtles use magnetic fields to find their way
back to the beach where they were born.
i used to get lost just trying to walk home from the co-op.
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Ben is a kid at the age of 15 and has a normal family with everything he ever wanted. Although there is something he wanted to do and that was to do motocross.
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When the sun is out, it beams down on the pavement and makes the world smell like summer: chlorine and freedom. Chalk drawings sprawl throughout the cul-de-sac, greeting every visitor with misshapen hearts and disproportionately drawn people, both us and the drawings in gleeful unconsciousness that one day of rain would wash it all away.
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