Where is Home?_Beyond the Glass_It All Started In October_THE GARBAGE BAG
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Where is Home?
Manijeh Khorshidi, 2021 Where is Home?A happy childhood makes you long to go back to that time and space. And that is the case with me. If it was not for my early years of a carefree childhood, I might not withstand life's unexpected and turbulent episodes.My parents' house had a yard with a flower garden, trees, and butterflies. I see myself at four chasing life in that yard. I see myself leaving the world of the adults behind to submerge myself in nature’s offerings. Every day with different gifts. One day drops of rain, another wind, and sunshine. But they were all mine. It was my made-up w...
Beyond the Glass
“Stand here. A little bit to the left. Not that much. Perfect.” She held his hand, trying to position him at the only vantage point she could, to show him what she saw in her head. “What am I looking at?” he asked, confusion evident in his tone. “That view,” she said, her eyes lost in whatever she was drawing his attention to, “it looks like heaven, feels like heaven. Imagine waking up every day to this.” He looked up at her. This was one of those few times she was propped on a higher surface and he had to look up instead of down, as he was used to. Their height difference was sometimes comic...
It All Started In October
“I dare you to kiss me.” I let my nerves wander all around my insides as I anticipated his answer. Without much hesitation, James starts to get up from his laid down position on his couch and approach me. My eyes widen and I start to squirm in my recliner. “Hey, wait a second what are you doing?!” I shout. He pauses in front of me but doesn’t make a move to touch me. “I’m going to kiss you.” He said threateningly. I try to repress the feelings of excitement that surfaced when he announced this. No matter how much I wanted it to happen, it couldn’t. “Um No. You’re not. Go get the wine, you ar...
THE GARBAGE BAG
THE GARBAGE BAG What a strange dream that of the last night. He dreamed of his grandparents’ country house, where he had lived some years as a child. In his dream Joe was going up the stairs that, suddenly lit up with a shining light , as they were becoming more steeper and also more and more long under his step ( feet), as if they never ended . He had the feeling, going up, it was impossible to get the top of the stairs. As he kept going up on the stairs that had become endless, someone, perhaps his grandmother, invited him to go to the barn where he could see ….what was th...