I Will Wake Up by Bea L. Hertz

The following is a featured 100-word story from the December Writing Challenge.   And she won’t. Stupid plane. Stupid ballet. Gigi, dead, because of them. Without a broken leg from dance… She would’ve been the survivor, not Rose Ridgeway. Teary-eyed, I mosey through Roman High. Apologies engulf me. Those we love never truly leave.  Rose expresses “regret.” Deep down […]

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hiraeth by Emmy Song

the long summer i wished would never end. you wondered if your clammy fingers could get away with brushing against mine, measuring the weight of my thighs, tangling your heartstrings with mine. because everything you did ended in tragedy. my dreams typed out in lowercase letters i was afraid of growing up so i sanded […]

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