The moment our souls first connected, I could feel the stars shattering because I was too young to have found my soul sisters, scattered among the streets of this tedious town. Forests vanished beneath the tip of my pen when I wrote about you, all of you, and the memories we made that year of […]
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While my friends, all beautiful with diamond promises on their left hands, live out overflowing love and beginnings, I’m here in this empty, secret, overgrowth garden that is the middle of me. Hope waits at the gates as I swing myself over and over the green pond at the center and rub fallen pink rose […]
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Good friends are the people who acknowledge when you’re sad, when you’re struggling, and who do everything that’s possible to support you and make you feel like you’re not alone. Good friends are the people who you’re able to spend your time with and come away feeling fulfilled — feeling happy and loved and as […]
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This story is one of the January Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story. I hear his footsteps long before I bother to speak. Link has never been a big guy, but his steps have always been loud, and they’re even louder out here in the snow-covered woods. “You’re following me,” I say […]
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We wandered back inside, greeted with laughs and drinks that had been shared among a tiny circle of about seven friends sitting on the floor, echoing each other’s names and talking of how much we were all missed. It was the end of March, technically Spring Break, but the cold cut into every single one […]
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I’m in a really strange place right now. My thoughts are not my own. I don’t know my rights or wrongs. I feel invisible and out of place. You say I’m fine, that you don’t hate me, but that’s not what I feel. Deep down I know you all love me for who I am […]
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A group of friends sit together, giggling and tittering over idle gossip. Bouts of laughter strike sometimes, and all of them snicker over some joke. Each one of the girls contributes in telling her narrative. One, however, remains silent. Not in a harmful sense, though, because she pitches in her participation by bursting into laughter […]
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there is a feeling that you get only once in a lifetime. it is the feeling of being surrounded by happiness so fierce, it festers and infects you. it is the opposite of loneliness, because in this vast desert i have never felt more at home. with them there is a safety so pure it […]
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Sometimes shopping and sleepovers can get a bit boring. This article is for those of you who’d like to spice it up a bit! Here are some other ways you can hang out with your friends. Go to a park It may sound old-fashioned, but go outside! Pack a sandwich, snacks, and a camera and […]
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