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Submitted to Contest #283
I check my watch; 6:32pm it reads. It’s been thirty minutes and Jessie Wilkins hasn’t shown up. On a typical Christmas eve sundown, I’d have been in my grandmother's antique dining room with the eye-aching floral tapestry wallpaper. I’d be seated at the ornate table at the very center of the dining room with my mother, father, grand old Tim, aunt Beatrice, uncle John and aunt Joan, and of course, we can’t forget the cousins either- the Siamese twins (Hanna and Hector), Jasper, Laura-Jean, and of course me, Mason. By now we’d all be...
Submitted to Contest #178
Click-clack, click-clack, click-clack. My typing was annoyingly loud. I remember as a child I used to wake up at the brink of dawn and log into my computer to use this online typing test that I was obsessed with. The typing test showed how fast you could type with WPM. The only problem is that now my typing speed has increased but I can’t seem to type quieter. My siblings used to hate this so they threw pillows at me until I was banished to the living room. Little runts. Even if we didn’t get along much as kids, I still really miss the...
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