Towards the Sun_The Train to Hope_Lawfully, Your Teacher_How We Used To Be
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Towards the Sun
Dedicated to MarthitaIt was near dawn when Fayna arrived at her house. The door was wide open and she was afraid she was the victim of a robbery. She carefully removed her white loafers and crept inside. The porch light that she used to leave on when she returned at night allowed her to see inside and enter with more confidence. She realized that everything was in order and that nothing was missing. The young woman only noticed something strange: there was too much silence, she did not hear the clock in the room and she realized that it stopped working. Then she checked the rest of the clocks ...
The Train to Hope
Dasha stares out the train window and reflects on the last two years, wondering if life will ever be the same again. She packed everything she owned in the small suitcase stored above her seat and spent her last dollar on the train ticket to Poland. She leaves behind death, destruction, poverty, and war in exchange for uncertainty, hope, and a potential future. When the Russians invaded Ukraine, they demolished buildings, killed civilians, and wreaked havoc on every aspect of everyday life. For a long time, she felt like she would be able to wait it out, stand her ground and push through it. T...
Lawfully, Your Teacher
"I am dropping out of school," Julie said abruptly during their family dinner. Her parents stared at her in utter silence, and she suddenly felt awkward sitting across from them. Seeming to leave a trance, her mother dropped her fork and stared at her in disbelief. Her father started carefully, "Sweetheart, what do you mean?"She was home for the summer and planned to stay until she figured thingswww.onedoor.cc out. Julie hated law school. It was a mistake. She was eager to start, but after spending a year with little sleep and learning all the material, she realized this was not a career for her. If she con...
How We Used To Be
You spend years of your life with someone. You get to know their favorite foods. You get to know what their hair looks like first thing in the morning. You get to know about every single detail of them. You find yourself in love with everything about them, even the bad parts. You think there won’t ever come a day where you would despise that person. You would be wrong. You would be so completely wrong. I could be biased, but I’m just speaking from experience. I hate my husband. I hate when he comes home from work and goes straight to the couch. I hate when I make dinner and he doesn’t say than...