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Submitted to Contest #53
I’ve had about enough of this heat. It had been over a week of constant heatwaves. After a particularly brutal winter, you would have thought that the heat was a good change. It was till it wasn’t. My Mom had woken me up just fifteen minutes earlier just to run to the store. She said she couldn’t go because she had some work to do one her computer. It was quite upsetting she didn’t mention the date but brushed it off she must have just forgotten. I pulled my dark blue hair into a ponytail and checked it in the mirror and deemed it ...
Submitted to Contest #51
The gravel road was uneven and bumpy as I drove back home. I’m not even sure I could call it home anymore, I had been away for so long. Would it even be the same? These thoughts raced through my head as I entered rural Missouri I had seen about fifty American flags just in this town. My car pulled to a stop and I got out to look at the house. I hadn’t been back in over fifteen years but it and the town were the same. Worn down by time and crumbling. Some might say it was a fixer-upper or it had charm but I knew what it was a disaster. T...
Submitted to Contest #50
The high of performing will be something I will never get over. It didn’t matter how big or small a role after the first show I was hooked. The swell of emotions before a show always took over me. It didn’t matter that I had done this a dozen times over the shaking in my hands was still there and my breathing was irregular. I loved it. Some people would never understand why the shaking was so appealing to me and that’s okay. It just isn’t for them the nerves are too much. For me on the other hand it reminded me I was alive and living in t...
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