“Don’t leave.” I desperately offer this failure of a soliloquy. My hands trace circles in the sand. Out here it’s just me, the sand, the ocean that seems to be singing a melancholy song– and him. “I don’t want to,” he tells me and grabs my hand. He stares into my soul and then he […]
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On my last day in Mumbai, I wanted to stay with my friends (well, my crush too). It was the perfect summer day and I went swimming. The first person I saw– Andrew. We made eye contact for a minute. Big thing! Throughout the hour, we shared multiple moments. Later that evening, I bid my friends adieu, and […]
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Lying underneath the blooming oak tree, April ponders her life. Book in hand and Oasis in her earbuds, she can’t help but wonder if she’s doing something wrong. Why am I not excited to be a senior this year? Why am I not experiencing all of the things you hear about in those corny rom-coms, […]
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Callie felt her eyelids slowly close, heavy from a dreary sleep. She envisioned an island with tall, long trees and lakes running deep as the sky. She heard a ruffling of the leaves. She wanted to inspect the noise but her body froze with fear. What if it was a trap? Would she die? She […]
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The mingled heat of summer and adrenaline trickles down my spine as you step in closer. I beg my fight or flight response to knock some sense into me before your outstretched hand reaches my cheek; pray for the strength to escape the deadly moment that I know – we both know – will erupt […]
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I take a deep breath, looking up. I hold the pages against me. Am I ready? I push open the door to the building, the grey brick exterior now behind me. This started as an assignment, there’s no need to go on. But, Mr. Haverman did say I should let someone see it, right? I […]
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As I look up my eyes squint at the rays of light coming from the sun. Sometimes I envy the sun, because unlike the sun, I am dark, dull, and fading. It is the sun that always shines, always radiates light and seems so passionate to burn brightly. As I stand at the very end […]
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I’d rather be in the streets, battling 10 foot beasts, instead of cloaked in the darkness of my bedroom because the horrendous monster inside my mind refuses to admit defeat. My eyes have glazed over as I become enthralled by the blinking cursor on the screen. Impatiently, my right leg jumps up and down, keeping […]
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Click. The shiver ran down my spine. Click. The light seared into my eyelids. Click. One instant, one tiny corner of the world, captured by a Click. I looked at the moment in time, extended forever on the camera screen. The butterfly’s wings were precisely detailed, as lucid as the fluttering model in the meadow, […]
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