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Submitted to Contest #297
The monotony of my life was beginning to grind. I looked around the dreary platform, the weather not helping my mood. The perpetual drizzle and grey skies were a norm these days and I longed for them to be an exception. When I was a child, I used to love rainy days, we would play board games and do puzzles then drive my mom crazy with our fighting! How I wish I could go back to more simpler times, the freedom that childhood gives you is never appreciated until it is gone. I suddenly jolt out of my meanderings as the 6.42 train to Waterloo is...
Submitted to Contest #293
It was a Friday evening and here I was driving my Grandma’s friend to the airport. Don’t get me wrong I do not mind; well I confess there were some complaints to Mom, as I could hardly complain to Grandma. That said at twenty years of age shouldn’t my life be more exciting?Mrs. Cohen is a sweet old lady and I had met her a few times before. She was already waiting for me when I arrived. I had got out to open the car door for her and helped her into her seat then put her battered suitcase in the trunk.“Such lovely manners.” She told...
Submitted to Contest #265
“Jennifer, hurry you’re going to miss your flight!” Mom shouted up.Mom, I thought and let those words sink in. I was nineteen and my Mom was my rock, best friend and confidant. It made this trip hard. We talked and talked till the early hours sharing our thoughts, she understood, she always did. Yet I know she feared losing me and however much I tried to reassure her and no matter how much she professed her understanding, there was that look of doubt and uncertainty which pained me no end.I ran down the stairs with my luggage almost toppling...
Submitted to Contest #258
“Mom, where do you think your passport is?” I shouted up to her, wondering why I did as my mother could not hear me talking even when I was sat next to her. I moved some more papers in the drawer that seemed to be breeding papers and items. Suddenly, I saw a photograph of a young man in a uniform. On the back was written “Ich liebe dich, Gerhard xx. 24.09.1943 xx”. I turned the photo over and noticed the German uniform. I remembered seeing this photo before when I was a teenager, snooping through the drawers. My mother had caught me and I ha...
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