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Adelina Hill

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Like Mother Like Daughter

Adelina Hill

Submitted to Contest #84

They would be seventeen today. My twin daughters. Seventeen whole years in a world I knew they are safe in. It was the best decision for them after all. I sat on my cushioned stool, a leg tucked under me staring out the window as the sunlight shined in on me warming my skin. I blinked and soaked up the heat like a reptile taking a sun bath. "So, this how you're going to spend this day again?" Sable leans against my doorway . The door was closed before for a reason. Privacy didn't exist for me. It never had. I couldn't complain. I wasn't...

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Rest in Peace

Adelina Hill

Submitted to Contest #57

“I want to go home.” Penelope crossed her arms and sat back in the old wooden chair. It creaked under her weight filling the silence between her and the secretary. “Penelope, I’ve told you before-“ “How about you just stop saying it then?” She snapped; spit flinging from her rose-colored lips. “You know the answer so why do you keep demanding?” &n...

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Moral of The Story

Adelina Hill

Submitted to Contest #39

One day the sun rose in the west and set in the east. I got used to it. There wasn't any fear anymore. No desire to run from whatever crept around the corner. Some things you can't change, no matter how hard you try. My twin sister and I learned that from the moment we discovered what we were. It didn't make us any less human. Instead, it taught us the definition of being human is specific. A brain, heart, lungs. But what about the soul? Did that define a human? We couldn't see it, touch it, or feel it. But i...

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