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Submitted to Contest #208
Trigger Warnings- Arguments between Family / Mental Health "We only want what's best for you." I could feel my chest tighten and my heart drumming faster with each word they spoke. My voice wanted to prove them wrong, but my mouth wouldn't open, no matter how much I willed it to. The look of false empathy in their eyes only made me far more upset than I was. Time and time again, they would act as if they understood my sorrows. Being handed such sweet words of reassurance as comfort for a situation they put me in left a sour taste in my t...
Submitted to Contest #199
I had never been one for attending parties. Yet I was standing outside my best friend’s house, attending the biggest party of the school year. The backyard was full of my classmates, and music blared from inside the house. Occasionally, someone would come to the front yard where all the vehicles were parked. If that wasn’t embarrassing enough, I was alone. When the music wasn’t playing loudly, the only noise that filled my tired ears was the singing voices of midsummer crickets. My back rested on the driver’s door of my father’s old bla...
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