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Kristin DeLong

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Stars at night

Submitted to Contest #51

A mercifully cool breeze rustles through my long dark hair as I am jostled around in the back of a pickup truck. As I open my eyes, I look up at the stars above me and immediately, I am furious at the thought that she can see them too. That no matter how far away from her I have tried to get, it will never be far enough. I’m forever trapped. I left the day that she was out taking our girls to the doctor. No one was sick, it was just time for their well child visits. I should have been there after they got home to soothe hurt feelings over ge...

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Hopeful

Submitted to Contest #42

She sat at the coffee shop and nervously shuffled through the items in her purse. “Where was her lipstick?” she fumbled around in a panic. She had put some on before she left the house, but she couldn’t meet him without double checking that it was on perfectly. After a few minutes of searching, she finally located the shiny gold tube and her compact. She smiled as she looked into the mirror. After years of straightening every week, it was nice having her natural hair back again. Made her feel young. She had brought a book with her to pass th...

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The person you want to be

Submitted to Contest #28

I stared at the picture yesterday, Eagles Super Bowl parade day, February 8th, 2018. It popped up on Facebook as my memory from two years ago. I can feel my happiness leap off of the computer screen and attack my current state of existence. The day to day seems to pale in comparison. Well, to be honest, I think everyone would think the same thing. It isn’t every day that you meet a man online who is your best friend and your deepest love. It isn’t every day that you move across the country to live close to him. It isn’t every day that your n...

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Better than a new year

Submitted to Contest #22

She came running over to me, very excited. “Grandfather, Happy New Year!” she exclaimed and held out the cookie that was pressed tightly in her chubby little hand. “Thank you my dear,” I smiled as she placed the crumbling baked good into my weathered old palm. It was a simple recipe, one that we used often. The only difference is that it had been rolled up into a ball for the holiday. She quickly ran off to play with her friends, and I was left alone in my thoughts of the old days.We used to be a very greedy and selfish society, but Mother N...

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Thanksgiving blessing

Submitted to Contest #17

I told my brother not to do it. But he never listens to me. He might now. He had finally escaped the horrible marriage that he had been living in for twenty years and was eager to date. "I found someone on Plenty of Fish, and she seems really great!" I remember him mentioning to me. I thought it was too soon and it was my opinion after online dating myself, that P.O.F. was where all of the crazies hang out. I actually had a guy ask me if I had any sexually transmitted diseases during a coffee meetup that before that question had been monopol...

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Going into the woods

Submitted to Contest #16

All of my life, I had been warned, “Don’t go into the woods!” and I would answer back, "Why not?" I was most insistent on finding out, however, no one ever had a good enough reason. It was almost as if it had started out as a rumor which eventually had grown into an urban legend. That is, until I asked Granny Taylor. She isn’t my grandma, she is the town’s local homeless person. Most of the time she was seen walking around, pushing a grocery store shopping cart loaded with her belongings. She wore giant sunglasses, red lipstick and a giant w...

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