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  • Stand Out Fit In
  • Taking the Photo Before it's Gone
  • Window Washing
  • BENEATH THE STARS OF EMRYSEL
  • Stand Out Fit In

    Maggie was a small girl when her parents gave birth to another child, this time a boy. She had screamed in their very tired and exhausted faces, upset that they felt the need to replace her because they probably thought she wasn’t fun enough for them.They sent her upstairs, too tired to argue with her but to Maggie, it looked like they wanted to kick her out. She threw several fits the next week, ignoring the desperate parents and their persuading explanations.Despite her tantrums, she found herself adoring the little boy that would sometimes crawl into her room and her lap. He looked up at he...oJQone door

    Taking the Photo Before it's Gone

    The ground is a long way down. But I’ve already hit rock bottom, so in contrast, it’s simply a small leap to the moss covered floor. I wonder if it’s better down there, surrounded by motherly trees that litter the forest floor with green leaves, wet withwww.onedoor.cc fresh rain. But I like it up here, in the trees themselves. It gives me a much better view of the world around me.I should take a picture, I think. Old habitual thinking that is slowly creeping back. I sigh and lean my head against the rough bark and take a mental picture. This, I know, will last longer in the end. Emotion burns my eyes and c...oJQone door

    Window Washing

    Trisha stuck her arm out the car window to let the summer sun fry her skin. Her mom was giving her a ride to the fast-food place where she worked. She asked Trisha when she was going to get a driver’s license, as was typical for her mom to do. “I don’t know, Mom, when I take the test.” She also asked about the interview at the daycare center, and Trisha responded that she hadn’t gotten a call yet. “No, Mom, I told you last night, I haven’t heard from the lady.” Her mom seemed exhausted. Maybe if she didn’t ask so many questions she wouldn’t be so tired, Trisha thought. They’d both eaten TV di...oJQone door

    BENEATH THE STARS OF EMRYSEL

    A final burst of warm air breaks the icy surface, escaping as a cascade of misty droplets soon lost to the ocean breeze. One last breath in this all too familiar form. With the coast so near now it is time to return at last. Time to rid himself of this size, these fins, and to feel once again the earth beneath his feet.The sea sits still and silent, an unseen transformation taking place within. When the surface next breaks this night, it is not by air, or the wide arch of a whale’s hump, but a calm, ever so slightly unsteady human taking his final strokes towards the shore. As his feet take pu...oJQone door

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