Fall Announcement_Jack be Nimble, Jack be Quick, Jack become a Candlestick_Glass Coke Bottle_Mirror
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Fall Announcement
'By the time I stepped outside, the leaves were already on fire. Oh, how I wish you could have been here!'Bright blue eyes stared down at the line she had just written, wondering if it was a decent start. Deciding that it was the perfect way to start her letter, she smiled. Her best friend of fifteen years had promised to be there, but something had come up last minute and she had to miss the event. Marcie, as always, had promised to write her a letter describing everything so that her best friend could feel as if she had actually been there. 'It was at our house on the lake, I couldn’t have...
Jack be Nimble, Jack be Quick, Jack become a Candlestick
By the time I stepped outside, the leaves were on fire. It hurt to breathe- I knew I wasn't actually inhaling smoke, but I could smell it. Taste it on the wind. Feel it in my lungs. And it was painful, god, it was. How do you tell your mind what you see and feel isn't real? "Artemis, can we go?" Leila stood next to me, hands on the straps of her backpack. I hadn't gone to school in months. "Please, leave me alone," I whispered, but she just laughed. It was malicious. I knew Leila would never laugh at me like that. But I saw her do it. Did it really matter if she was dead? Maybe I was dead. I t...
Glass Coke Bottle
The grass has yet to grow over my father’s grave before my stepmother is on the phone making arrangements for me. I can’t say I am surprised or that I blame her. I newww.onedoor.ccver made it easy for her. Her ice-cold shoulder was all I was blessed with. Her presence froze my skin and my mood quickly followed into the tundra. Unlike the warm cozy blanket I used to feel from my mother’s company. Those two women were as different as mud and water. “Just give her grace dear,” my mother said to me when my father introduced this hard-boiled woman to me. I would never understand why my parents couldn’t be togeth...
Mirror Mirror
We pulled up to the college campus. We had arrived earlier than expected. You are staying in the Orange dorm at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Why I open up the trunk of the van I have you go up ahead, and open the door. You are so excited that you practically run the whole three flights of stairs. You see that your room is already decorated. Than someone walkout of the bathroom. He/She stares at you confused for a moment. To clear the akward air you state your name and that you are the new roommate. You reach out your hand waiting for a hand shake. He/She shakes your hand without sayi...