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I’m scrambling, as I normally am, practically throwing things into a basket and not even worrying about the eggs I’m probably crushing with some peanut butter. I definitely look comical, speed-walking from aisle to aisle, at one point knocking over a display of organic macadamia nuts (of which no one in their right mind would ever consume). It has been one of the longest days of my life, but then again, they seem to be getting longer with every passing day. I laugh to myself, hating the sun for setting so soon, and hating time for passing so...
Submitted to Contest #50
Langston Hughes once wrote, “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” This was it. I was holding fast to my dreams. Today was the day that my dream might actually come true. I might really be able to be who i've always wanted to be. All I have to do is just step on that stage, and perform. I always wanted the picturesque, simple life. White picket fences, my very own iron, my husband coming home to a homemade apple pie, and our beautiful kids running around on grass as green as an emeral...
Submitted to Contest #49
Anticipation. Suspense. Worry. Distress. Everyone tries to paste a label on a situation. It was scary. It was traumatizing. No one understands that sometimes everything is too confusing to even know how you feel yourself. Everyone asked me if I was ok, and all I said was ‘I’m fine’. I didn’t know how to describe what I went through. And even more so, I didn’t know what would happen to everyone else. After a while, all I felt was guilt. I didn’t understand why I got to be fine, but everyone else suffered. I’m just me. Me who loves singing, an...
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