The Odd Wheel Out_Someone Like Me_Pending Try_Phones Off... Or Else.
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The Odd Wheel Out
I had just finished trimming the last specks of hair from my neckbeard, the fresh blade scraping hard against my skin causing red to leak from my skin. The last sheet of toilet paper dangling over the roll would make for a good short term stopgap for the bleeding. The garbage was full so I dropped the now crumpled sheet into the toilet. For the first time in six months my beard was lined up and clean. I gulped in the mirror, shameful of the figure that stared back. Was I really ready for this? My black slacks were finally able slide on easy again, the last few months of exercising had seeming...
Someone Like Me
SOMEONE LIKE MEIt was the girls' night she had been looking forward to. She wasn't really a fun of the chit-chat and gossip about boys and make-up but today, there was something in it for her. She kept tossing different dresses onto her bed. Like most girls, she had tons of lovely clothes but couldn't find the perfect one when she needed to. Finally, she settled on the pink spaghetti strap high-low top and jeans her best friend, Ann had gotten for her on her birthday. By the time she put on make-up and fitted her legs into the stiletto heels, her mum couldn't help but ask what the occ...
Pending Try
"Okay, i accept the dare" I tell Lucia as we speak to each other in one of th dreams thai haunt me every night. "Will you at least try?" she asks me. "i will" I am on the roof of her house, five years have passed since I submerged; So deep and so dark I never thought I could get out We started with cigarettes, come on, we were sixteen years old; And living in Mexico has always been a paradise of debauchery for us curious young people. Beside me: Sofia, Lucia's sister, a singer from Mexico City with a bittersweet past and the veil of tragedy before her eyes. The same veil that covers his eyes c...
Phones Off... Or Else.
Phones Off...Or Else. Marching towards Mia and Jane, the town librarian was infuriated. Mr. Novelson generally overreacted regarding 'appropriate behavior' within the walls of his family's building. Silence is the most important rule of several library rules. Occasionally, he did have a point; chaos can be caused by noise. One Mid-October afternoon, Mia's phone rang on the loudest setting. The ridiculous ringtone played throughout the small library. Young and old, all visitors became too distracted by the strangely catchy tune to focus. Children laughed and danced; their tutor however, glared ...