Maja Piskorska

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“One-Way Return Ticket” by Maja Piskorska

Submitted to Contest #260

‘I am not going to print this!’‘Why not?’‘Nobody wants to read about floating bodies in a river next to their homes.’‘This is what happened to their neighbors. Don’t you think they have the right to know the truth? Isn’t this what we were supposed to do here?’‘We are telling all kinds of truths, just not these particularly gruesome and disgusting ones.’ Coward, I really wanted to scream it to his face. ‘Look, Emma, maybe you should consider writing for some other paper, becoming a P.I., or reporting from a war zone; it seems like death ...

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'The creative adult is the child who has survived.' -Ursula K. Le Guin