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Submitted to Contest #222
The sun was shining outside my bedroom window, the bright rays were warming up the fields of apple trees I would be tending to that day. I grew up in the city, but my family was in and out of my life from a young age. Today was the first day I was staying in a large farm in the countryside on an apprenticeship. It wasn’t my idea but I was excited to start working. My mom had even packed me a lunch before she went on her business trip across the country with her new fiancé, Carlos. I didn’t like the idea of her getting married again, especial...
Submitted to Contest #219
It was dark outside the locked window of the small room. The curtains were drawn and a light layer of dust covered the wooden desk in the corner. A young girl was asleep in a rickety old bed. A beat up teddy bear gripped tightly in her small arms. She was mumbling in her sleep. Another girl in a different bed started to stir and wake up. A heavy rain started to hit the thin window. All the girls in town were kept here, in this house. The community had homes for children, where they lived away from their families. The home for girls and the h...
I am a queer writer who likes to write about queer people and mental health in a nice way <3
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