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Submitted to Contest #300
I’ll always remember the summer I moved to Alexandra Falls. The neighborhood kids thought my name, Alexander, meant I was related to the town’s namesake. It didn’t make sense to me either—maybe it was their idea of a joke or just another way to remind me I didn’t belong. Terrence Lawman blatantly made fun of me because I liked color in my wardrobe. Derek Spellmen made fun of me because of my mannerisms. Spoiler: those same mannerism is why he asks me on a date 4 years later. But all the other kids made the name “joke”.The only two kids I got...
Submitted to Contest #299
Each birthday is supposed to bring wisdom—another year of challenges and lessons shaping who you become. As I sit in my bedroom on my seventeenth, listening to Mom and Dad argue again, I wonder if that’s true. Do we grow, or are we just trapped in the same cycles, bound to people who drain us? Of all days, you’d think this one wouldn’t be about them and their failing marriage. What keeps people tethered to someone they clearly disdain? I scan my room for a distraction. Action figures I haven’t touched in years. Books ranging from Dr. Seuss...
Submitted to Contest #295
Moving is quite possibly the worst. Now packing... Packing is fine. You get the cathartic pleasure of grouping your belongings in labeled boxes. Everything has its place. You travel down memory lane as you reminisce on when you wore those rainbow sunglasses to pride or when your mom bought you that watch that you wore twice before placing it in a box and never allowing it to see sunlight again. Well, until now. Now that you're looking at all the knick-knacks, pieces of clothing, and junk you’ve acquired over the years, you’re emotional and r...
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