Rosewood_Your Heart's Desire_Mama, Introduction_The reluctant rebel
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Rosewood
Hidden out of sight, I peeked between the slats of the closet doors to find flashes of an unwinnable fight. It seemed to last for an eternity while I anguished.Suddenly I heard a heavy load tumbling down a flight of stairs.Shattering glass as a body crashed through the sliding glass doors at the bottom.www.onedoor.ccFootsteps leading towards the slamming of the front door.And the rage smoldered away, leaving only a boy fractured in the yard and tire smoke forlornly curling off the driveway.In his darkened bedroom a puddle of orange lamplight spread across the bed where he lay, imitating peace. While his min...
Your Heart's Desire
Kate glanced anxiously at the sky. The clouds were angry and gray. It was still a long walk to get back to her house, and she didn’t want to anyway. There was too great a chance that her Mom would be home with her boyfriend. She was still nursing her bruises from the last time she had walked in on a date night. Raindrops started pelting her face and she looked around for a place to take shelter. The only place that looked open was what appeared to be a coffee shop on the corner. She ran in, her school bag over her head. The shop was deserted except for an elderly woman sipping coffee and looki...
Mama, Introduction
A single flame flickered erratically in a single lantern on a single shaky table, where two tired chairs sat two tense parents, worry worn on their faces. Eden and Daniel Vera Cruz hadn’t been parents for very long, but their concern lied in that they would not be parents for much longer. They sat across from each other, Daniel’s leg was tapping a fidgety little beat against the floor, and Eden played with the ends of her long black hair, her eyes moving from her husband to the cabinet behind him and then back again. The wind howled outside their home, the ever present reminder of the danger ...
The reluctant rebel
For as long as Ritwik remembered, he had never had a say in his life. The earliest memories went back to his school days. He lived with his family in a small town of Uttarakhand, a state in northern India. For a family of five, the house felt like a mansion to Ritwik and Reena, then five and three respectively. Low white buildings, with multiple interconnected rooms, and plenty of space allowed him and his sister to run wild in the house. Adjacent to their home was a temple, constructed by the boy’s forefathers, maintained by his parents, where the children were allowed to enter only under adu...