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“SEX/YES” by Oli <3

The boy with “SEX” on the bottom of his snowboard, I met him in January.  January ninth, the first time we taught together. He was introverted. Asked for my name, and stopped talking to me.  It didn’t matter to me. We were only teaching together for the season. Seven weeks, every Sunday. He treated me like a younger sister.  Stole snowballs from the kids and pretended to throw them at me.  So I made my own. He saw me and asked what I was doing. I dropped my hands to the side.  “Nothing.” He looked skeptical...

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“Cordelia's Cafe” by Oli <3

Submitted to Contest #63

 The scent of maple cinnamon and pumpkins seeps through my mask. I pull my mask a little lower and inhale again. S’mores and pecans.  Autumn. The loveliest time of year. I round the corner and find the cafe covered in crimson red leaves. It looks better in autumn. Everything did.  I enter the cafe. It was unrecognizable. Orange wallpaper peeling near the ends, small rotting wooden tables and cobwebs forming near the windows. This could not be the place I met her. “May I help you?” the girl behind the register deadpans.&nbsp...

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“Change in a Box” by Oli <3

Submitted to Contest #50

It was not a pleasant summer morning when Molly first called. The sun was blocked by stale clouds. The sky itself was a pale shade of gray. Gusts of uneven wind were weaving in and out of leaves. To make the morning a little more ill, Molly, the same Molly who she hadn’t talked to since high school had called her out of context. Elizabeth had nothing against Molly, but engaging herself with anyone of her former high school friends made her feel uneased. Naturally, Elizabeth let her phone ring, before deciding to send Molly to voicemail. El...

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“Cotton Candy, Croissants and France” by Oli <3

Submitted to Contest #36

May 19, 2014.  It’s been a long time since I’ve written in this thing, huh? Not since seventh grade, wow. I must have been consistent back then! I guess it’s only reasonable I give an update to you. I’ll be going to college in September. I applied last week and I got accepted. It’s really nothing special, just a community college. I also applied for Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. I didn’t tell Max yet. I know he would never approve of me leaving California for my passion. Mom would though, after all, she had been a prestigio...

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“Dance of the Impures” by Oli <3

Submitted to Contest #35

  I look in the glass mirror. My face is caked in makeup. I have light pink eye shadow on and silver jewels glued to the edges of my eyes. My eyes feel heavy because of the thick lashes stuck on my eyelids. Earlier my stylist insisted on dying my eyebrows a hue of dark red, but there was no way I’d let her do that to me. My hair is up in some sort of a french twist. Don’t get me wrong, it all seems lovely. Just not like Cathy, more like Catherine. Back home my hair was confined to ponytails, not like I considered doing anything els...

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