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Simon HayesSav VandyChristine Stories 04-07

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  • A Record-Breaking Bake In Proud Poteet
  • Bruised Apples
  • Alone, I'm
  • Truth
  • A Record-Breaking Bake In Proud Poteet

    Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 The coloured bunting stretched as far as the eye could see in all directions, fluttering gently in the light breeze. The Poteet Strawberry Festival was being held in just over a week from today, and the authorities had been very busy this week, putting up all of the decorations along Main Street. The delicious smells of baking floated out through the open door of the Bakery and up the street, filling the noses of passers-by. As the residents of the small Texan town of Poteet approached Bella's Bakery, the sounds of singing periodically accompanied the aromas exiting t...rGtone door

    Bruised Apples

            Katie woke from her stasis pod and felt the familiar pang of hunger in her belly. She showered and dressed as quickly as she could to start her new planet tradition, the marketplace. Katie, always, no matter what, would go to the marketplace on a new planet first. It was the best way to see what the planet was really like. A marketplace was the heart and soul of the planet. Where every culture could come and celebrate together, the food was just an added perk. As she packed her day pack she watched the required video about the planet her cruise ship had landed on. Altterra, a planet th...rGtone door

    Alone, I'm

    I’m upstairs in my attic, writing in a new journal I had received for my fourteenth birthday.I’m away from Casey’s crazy tenth birthday party—        Crash! My dad’s firm tone reminded Casey she can’t jump off her bunk bed, no matter how many girls have done it before here, nor how many times she begs, pleads, whines and even bribes him.“The answer is no.”A door closed. A pound caused a yell and then a fake apology. My decade-and-a-half year old brother, Decade, and his two so-called tough guy friends, Greg and Geoff, were pranking on Casey. Any minute now, shrieks were going to pierce the air...rGtone door

    Truth

    TW: self harm, death Dr. Avery Jackson and her sister both ran a mental hospital together. It was a cold snowy day. She was justwww.onedoor.cc about to go home. When, a nurse called her "Dr. Avery! Dr.! Irina has slit her wrist" The Dr. went to the patients' ward. The patient was crying bitterly looking at her bleeding wrist. Irina was ten years old. "Irina sweetheart, what did you do to yourself? " "I wanted to go to the cafeteria. This nurse doesn't allow me" cried the child. "I will bring you there. Let me do the dressing first" smiled the Dr. "Mary, bring her to the cafeteria" The nurse pushed her to th...rGtone door

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