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Naia Campanaro

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Teacup

Submitted to Contest #76

Screaming pain, itching wails, spine-grinding shrieks.  And from that there was silence.  I vowed to never speak, and my brain took this much too literally.  They’ve created a name for it, this thing that I have.  Conversion disorder.  I hate the word.  Disorder.  A mess, a problem, a cluttered cabinet.  It makes me sound sick, ill, and unconventionally stupid.  I can’t speak. Not even if I tried. Not even if I wanted to.  But...

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You Can Fly if You Fall Long Enough

Submitted to Contest #74

One. I took a step. Two. I looked up. Into the distance, across the horizon, and admired my view of blue.  Three. Watched the birds as they beat through the sky. Clawing and tearing at it to get past another foot in hopes to stay above the hard ground. Yet, it all comes so naturally to them, like  walking. Four. Those planes. Giant metal machines, somehow carrying all this weight through that vast  blue canvas stretched out in front of me. Five. The clouds seem so much lighter than I know they are. How could hundreds of tons s...

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