glimpses shared by our authors
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"Thinkin' about your parents, huh?" Derek asked. The girl winced when he said it out loud. He was looking into the kitchen nook where she was sitting at the table, ... read more -
"Ma'am I have the authority to stop you from leaving the hospital until we talk. So you can do this the easy way or I can call security and we ... read more -
into when her shoulders ceased up. "Alec is a very good boy, he never gets into fights." "Well, Mrs. Wolfe," Rachel said with a very all-knowing tone that struck something ... read more -
My cat comes home- in the soft light of a late summer afternoon that sighs like the evening. I see her as I sit quietly in front of the window. ... read more -
Darkness. Yelling. Pleading. Images flashed as she was tugged by her mother down the stairs. The car screaming to a start, and the thick hands and whispered voice gone forever. ... read more -
She flung her comforter off with the realization that at 15 her school day quotas had not been used up yet. Mom was probably up already enjoying a cup of ... read more -
Every single day, it's the same routine. I come in, sit down, make everybody laugh, and then I scoot back and enter the world of my words. I think everyone ... read more -
Strangely enough they didn't chase me off. They shared their names and pulled mine from me. There, now we knew each other. But it was straining and awkward to sit ... read more -
8/26 I miss walking home and feeling the evening wind on my bare skin. I miss the roar of the crowds and the traffic. The silence and still air that ... read more -
Barnes and Noble everyday.I've come here enough times these past months to intimately know the non-aggressive drone of chic remixes over the speakers. I even know faces of others like ... read more
