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When Under the Stars
“I remember when the news broke out,” Marlowe said, her words jabbing at the inside of her mask. “I was on a ski lift with my mom. I’ve never skied before and never planned to in that moment. I guess I was just going to take the lift back down.” She peeled bark off a nearby tree and swatted moths out of her tangle of curls. “We were sharing a bag of chips. My mom had heard about the virus and told me. We stopped eating chips.”The air was stale and chilling. It was silent except for dog howls and the pulse of hearts under coats and the crunch of Gracen devouring her bowl of popcorn. She paused...
Ernie and Clementine
Ernie was taking his nighttime constitutional when he spotted someone coming towards him. Nothing unusual about that, except this one looked like... Nah, it couldn’t be. Yet, as he got closer, he realized that, yes, it was, his old pal, Clementine! “Well, Clemie, ain’t you a sight for sore eyes!” “Ernie? Really and truly?” “Really and truly! The one- and- only Ernie Chester!” Clementine laughed. “You old dog! You’ll never change!” “Nope. And neither will you!” They laughed as they embraced each other. “How’ve you been?”they asked simultaneously. Ernie sighed. “As well as could...
Realization
Trigger warning: mentions of rape I got into the car and was planning to sit in silence. I felt my mother’s pressuring aura as she entered the car. I felt quite nervous as this was the time, I would begin to hear my mother yell at me, or nag me to death, or just destroy me because of what I had just done. We took the time to go out to get my wisdom teeth taken out, and I had denied the operation because I felt anxious. It was not completely because I had felt anxious, it was also because the surgeon was telling me that he felt slightly uncomfortable doing it. I took a hard swallow as I felt th...
It was the best of times it was the worst of times.
It was the best of times it was the worst of times.I could feel the Sweat as the beads ran down the back of my spine. The bright glare from overhead, the hands on the bank clock, said it was time to go.His suit was just www.onedoor.ccin from the cleaners, not a Wrinkle insight. His shoes were polished to a bright shine. His hair done-up just so, a cut and a shave. Everyone thought I look like a million bucks.The car shined in the afternoon sun as I drove up to the big house on the left of 5th Avenue. I gathered all my courage. Flowers in hand as I pushed the doorbell. I had asked the prettiest girl in town ...