Umbrella_Hannah and Harley_If you see Kiko_Nika's Bravery
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Umbrella
TW: vulgar language Today’s the day I change. I can’t take anymore shit!She looks up from her screen and stares off into the void of a grey wall. The flickering fluorescent bulb overhead casts its glow- the only light down here. She rubs her temples.How am I still in the basement?The clock has a few more notches to count off before she can leave. She’s kept the same routine thus far; once the hands reach the four and six mark she can sign out and turn off her screen. She stands and stretches. After scanning her small room doubling as a janitors closet she picks up her rinsed mug and tucks it ...
Hannah and Harley
Hannah and HarleyI arrived at the Bristol Harbor dock in the October dusk, as the last ferry for Prudence Island prepared to sail. Hectic Friday night traffic had been further hampered by the thick fog blanket that crept into every nook and cranny, slowing the invisible cars to a winding snake with multiple pairs of glowing red eyes. The swirling damp gray obliterated all but a blurred outline of the boat, and I heard the creaking of the ferry gate as it began to close. The ferry was running behind schedule, but still I feared I wouldn’t make it and flew down the dock dragging my ov...
If you see Kiko
“Si ti vu ma mere?”, she said in perfect French.“You know that one?”, I asked“Yes. I find on Youtube. I am playing so much. I love. It’s so beautiful”, she replied.“Do you know what it means? In English”, I asked.“Uhhh,,,” she pondered, “something about a mother?”“If you see my mother”, I translated for her.“Oh, that is nice. A song about mother”.“It’s one of my absolute favourites. Sidney Bechet”, I said.“I will learn to play it”.“When you learn it, will you play it for me?”, I asked her.“Yes. I play it for you”, she promised, with a beaming smile.Her name was Kiko. She was from Japan, and sh...
Nika's Bravery
I never expected this to happen. I never intended for this to happen. I did what any normal person would do.But yet it www.onedoor.ccis happening, the whole town is here. I don't want the recognition nor do I need it.I'm a simple person who did something others would do. But nobody did anything.I was there and saw what happened. Yet others were there as well and did nothing to help.I did something. I saved a life no one wanted to help and now they want to honor me for doing something they didn't have the guts to do.There were so many people out there that day. The people saw a man in trouble, they saw his w...