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Submitted to Contest #286
The bell rings, and my heart jumps. I typically enjoy 4th period Orchestra and the break from academics and sitting at a desk that it brings. I appreciate how the vibrations of the music hide the vibrations of my stomach growling in anticipation of lunch period, and how I know most everyone in the class, as the roster only slightly changes semester to semester. Today, however, my nerves subdue any other visceral response in my body, and all I can feel is dread. I start to pack my backpack and make the walk to the orchestra hall, taking my ti...
Submitted to Contest #284
Going home for the holidays always feels strange, and as a second-year college student avoiding home as much as possible, this was no exception. But turning down the street this Thanksgiving, I felt a new strangeness. It was the same house, the same curved driveway, opening to the garage to the right of a creaky front porch that barely passed as such. There was the same tree in the yard, the same missing shingles on the roof, the same fence with a broken lock… but the scene was all together oddly unfamiliar.At first I admired the difference....
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