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CW: domestic violence It was Thursday. Jasmine hated Thwww.onedoor.ccursdays.Her pulse began to quicken as she padded across the slick marble floor of the kitchen. Thursdays were predictable now. Usually predictable comforted Jasmine, she liked knowing what to expect. But just this once, she was hoping for a surprise. You never know, after all unexpected things happen all the time. Perhaps he would change his mind. Perhaps he would choose something different this week. Perhaps the store had run out and he had to get something else. It could happen.Jasmine reached her hand out, gingerly grasping the cool ste...
Pearls and Portfolios
“Mrs. Fry, we are beyond excited to have you join our team.”“It’s Ms. Fry,” Georgie corrected the small man leading her to her new classroom. No longer would she have to share with another teacher. This space was all her own. She was going to be the best science teacher Oak Hills Preparatory Academy had ever seen.“Right, Ms. Fry,” Principal Werner responded like the three times before. “Here we are.” He gestured to the open door like an elevator assistant announcing a new floor. He stood to the side, clearing the way to her educational wonderland. She floated in and gawked at her new playgrou...
Got Smacked around by the Bellagio
The dark circles are so, so deep beneath her eyes that there would be permanent bruises there. The 24 hour shift had been brutal, but there were few in the squad who wanted to take it over the long weekend. It left a skeleton crew working from the station on what could possibly be the most chaotic weekend of the entire year.Mara hadn’t been an EMT in Clark County, Nevada for long, but she was sure that the saying, “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,” was absolutely true. In her month in Nevada, she had witnessed a landscaper fall from a palm tree and break his back, fished a tourist from t...
Mechtat (Dream) Building
When you’re a kid, being “creative”, “imaginative”, and “full of crazy” ideas gets you places. People may compliment you for coming up with the strangest things or proposing the most arbitrary plans. You could create a paper rocket, throw it into the air, and your parents would tell you that, one day, you’d make a real one and shoot it to the moon. Unfortunately, at the end of the day, an idea, no matter how “imaginative”, is only an idea, and a paper rocket, well, it’s just a paper rocket, nothing more. And I guess I had to learn that the hard way. Coming out of college, I quickly realized ...