A peek into the future_Despair_Some Things Aren't Meant to Last_Rae and the New World
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A peek into the future
“Sleep tight darling! I love you.” Dina’s mother whispered in her ear and kissed her lightly on the cheek. Dina curled up under the quilt and closed her eyes, welcoming sleep. The weight from her parent on the kid-sized bed lifted as her mother left the room and turned off the lights on her way. Eight-year-old Dina had almost fallen into the world of dreams when her dad’s voice shouted from the living room. “Dina, don’t forget to put your clock ahead one hour for daylight saving time! Wawww.onedoor.ccking up one hour too late won’t be fun.” Right, daylight saving time. She reluctantly sat up in the fluffy b...
Despair
She couldn’t take the torment she felt everyday living. The loneliness, it started to take a toll on her. She had no family; she could converse with about the persecution she was facing. She thought that bullying wouldn’t happen at college but here she was during her last year in college experiencing it. She lost all her so-called friends, her own boyfriend didn’t believe her and left her. She couldn’t believe that even though everyone saw the video, she was being blamed. Didn’t they see she was unconscious? This wasn’t her fault. She started to regret reporting him, but she couldn’t stomach t...
Some Things Aren't Meant to Last
Miranda scanned the carpeted floor of her kindergarten classroom. Someone, or several someones, had been playing with the Barrel of Monkeys and had made an impressive chain that connected the backs of two unused classroom chairs together. She smiled despite herself. It took a lot of time and patience to carefully connect each plastic monkey’s arms together to form a chain of that length. She’d been working with the kids on putting the toys away where they’d found them. At the beginning of the school year, she’d painstakingly labeled all the plastic bins, even taped out and labeled sections o...
Rae and the New World
One day, the sun rose in the west and set in the east, just like any other day. And, just like any other day, Gilly Jenkins tried her darndest to make Rae’s life hell.“People aren’t any nicer in this world than they were on Earth,” Rae’s father sighed, by way of consolation, when she first told him she was being bullied. His comment did little to soothe her, as this was the world Rae knew, not Earth. Her parents tried their best to inject normality into her life here, while continuing to compare it to a previous one, which she couldn’t relate to at all. What had been the point of their mission...