The Secret Place_The Tiger_Oskar_Stronger in the New Year
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The Secret Place
Sometimes I return to the secret place without you. It is not my body that returns, but my soul. You would not believe it, but all of those trees still have our childish drawings carved into their skin. The canopy of leaves still stretches far above the damp earth, cloaking everything in that familiar shade we so often yearned for in the summer months. My mind puts me along the bank of the creek, skipping rocks across the calm rapids. Sometimes I see you there as well, laughing with me like we so often did. It's funny thinking about our secret pact, the pact to not bring others there. It was...
The Tiger
Part of Alyssa’s brain knew she was being unreasonable, but wasn’t that her right as a fifteen-year-old girl? Wasn’t that what teenage girls for known for? She was otherwise quite mature; she simply couldn’t get past this one little thing that sometimes ended up being a big thing. Times like this coming weekend.“For real though, you have to come. You get straight As in all of your smart girl classes and play three varsity sports, your parents have to trust you. And it’s just for the day! What do they think we’re going to do at the beach that we can’t do in their basements?” Cassie whisper...
Oskar
OskarThe smiles of the small crowd on the street disappeared faster than the people who hurried away from the boys in the brown outfits. Yelling profanities despite the presence of children who’d been enjoying the man’s show, they kicked his table over before they set to kicking the man to the ground and then kicking him more. The tools of his trade, the rings, the cups, the case, weren’t so badly hurt as the man seeming to claw his way through the sidewalk to safety. He crawled to the gutter – thank goodness the rained had flushed the rubbish and manure into the sewer.IOskar was hunched over ...
Stronger in the New Year
“You had the whole week off and you couldn’t even spend five minutes with her yet you take the other two for days at a time. You wonder why she doesn’t run to you or scream your name when she sees you. She doesn’t really know you anymore nor you her. You use to come over every weekend or every other wwww.onedoor.cceekend and spend the day with just her. You use to pay attention to her and play with her now it seems like your phone is more important. She asks for your attention but you give it to the other two more and she sees it. It not only hurts her but it hurts me as well. I want you to be close with h...