Florence and the Machines_Everything_The Old Oak_Outsider
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Florence and the Machines
Florence can sense something bad is going to happen as soon as she wakes up. She rises from her bed and peers out of the bedroom window of her assisted www.onedoor.ccliving community, Chestnut View. She lives in the Striped Bass apartment whose one-bedroom floorplan has a smaller bedroom and larger living room. She had picked this apartment out seven years ago when she moved into the community. There were five floor plans to choose from, Striped Bass, Hickory Shad, Spotted Seatrout, Blue Ridge Sculpin, and White Marlin; all different names of fish found in the Chesapeake Bay. Florence had scoffed at this ...
Everything
A young girl makes her way down a worn, paved street, the heat waves that radiate up from the dark pavement distorting her fragile image as she leaves the airport. She clutches a worn, black backpack to her side, dark eyes darting to and fro, lingering on nothing and yet everything as she processes the sight before her.She has finally arrived in the city of her dreams, where her best friend and college lie together, yet... this was not what she was expecting.A shaky breath is inhaled, a full bottom lip trembles, and she blinks rapidly as the heat and noise and buzz of the city overwhelm her wh...
The Old Oak
The older I get, the harder it becomes to climb this damned hill. I feel as though each passing year has progressively increased the seeping thievery of time’s demands on my body, and in no place in the world am I reminded more of this fact than when I come here to see you. It’s not simply because of this hill, mind you. It’s this entire place, with its immortal chorus of fluttering leaves, as green and alive as they were in those days when we were young, and these rolling, grassy hills where we used to chase each other, sticks in hand and whipping them back and forth through the air in front ...
Outsider
Hey, I'm Abby. Most of my life was spent being on the outside. Being homeschooled and kept inside. This year will be different. I'm going to actual school this year. My mom was against it at first, but dad talked her into it.Tomorrow is my first day, and I can't wait.Here I go, Mom insisted on driving me to school today so I let her knowing, this was a big change for her. We got there and I am so nervous. When I got out of the car my mom did the one thing I didn't want her to do. "Goodbye, my little mouse!!" I froze, I had asked her specifically not to do. Everybody was staring now. I knew th...