La Magie_Realm of the Unknown_Mount Philbert_Stubborn Apple
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La Magie
In. Out. In. Out. I take a small step out of my bedroom. Carefully. Silently.My mind, always the contrarian, flashes back to my mother catching me at age eight with a smeared face and handfuls of Kouign Amann hiding in our kitchen dumbwaiter. But, as I creep towards her drawing room, I know that a sore behind is a better punishment than the one I would reap if Madame Riche was to see me creeping along her foyer late at night.As my caretaker, the Madame is my North Star. She instructs me in the way that I, as a high society lady, should smile, walk, and breathe. Ever since my mother died, Madam...
Realm of the Unknown
It was a bright, sunny day. Clarence peered out the window. All that could be perceived from his eyes was a blank sky reflectingwww.onedoor.cc the black face looking out at the vast expanse.His parents called from downstairs. He turned and went through the threshold. He walked down the stairs into the living room where his parents had been waiting. They were impatient and demanded him to get his bags, annoyed that he was not ready.The family had been planning a vacation to Stony Ridge National Park for the past three months. His parents were restless, like the giddy students leaving school at the end of ...
Mount Philbert
Mount Philbert was a mountain the same way Pluto wasn’t a planet. If you measured it from the summit, it clocked in at just under 300 metres high. If you measured from the big rock on the summit, it was 301、4 metres. Experts were pided, some screaming about how the rock wasn’t part of the hill and others howling that it had just broken off the mountain and that didn’t diminish it, but everyone agreed that Mount Philbert was the most forgettable of all the Rockies.But when Brent got out of his SUV and stared up at it, he gasped.Yolanda waddled over to him, one arm wrapped around her swollen bel...
Stubborn Apple
The day she decided to leave town left a guttural feeling of dismay within myself. We had been best friends since the third grade. We knew each other’s deepest darkest secrets and never judged one another for any mistakes or things said. That summer she left she’d decided she needed to better herself and college was the thing she felt she needed to complete in order to further herself in life. I didn’t judge her for that but perhaps I felt bitter as she was my only connection to anyone. I’ve been that way for as long as I can remember. I don’t do well in big groups but thrive in small ones and...