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  • "Composition" - Fiction My sophomore year is when Hell opened up and swallowed me whole. I was taken from my parents and put into a co-ed group home in Boston. ...
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  • Of all the characters on the beach, my favorite had to be Michael. A tall, gooberish man, I later came to find out he had spent most of his adolescent ...
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  • "Hey Michael?" I asked. "Have you ever wondered why it took me so long to ever speak to you? Or even acknowledge you were trying to talk to me?" "Yeah, ...
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  • I should have expected the massage attempt. I should have mentally prepared my poor, drug-enhanced mind for what was about to happen, but I couldn't. Simply turning my back to ...
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  • 12 AM: Put the books down, finally get some rest. 3:26 AM: Thunder and wake up. 3:27 AM: I have so much work to do. 3:28 AM: Brain won't turn ...
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  • Love the coffee, hate the coffee-induced rage. Oh wait, that's just the clients and the co-workers doing what they do best- making me regret going to college and becoming "successful". ...
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  • Elizabeth. The queen her majesty, walks in a quiet night. She silences the moon with her authority. Oh, Queen, you have done everything you have needed to do. You drew ...
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  • I wake from my dream panting, as always. Though I have been plagued by dreams of falling since my childhood, I have never been able to halt the sudden panic ...
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  • There is no definate clue as to whether this place is supposed to serve a purpose as a punishment for me or a reward or even just to keep me ...
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  • They say that your life flashes before you right before you die but it's all a bunch of shit. Before I died, I had the most excruciating pain I've ever ...
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