e a sunflower Said My Mother,
I am only a dandelion seed drifting through the wind
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"Did you clock in?" The other secretary's voice cuts into my thoughts. I blink, "yes, I- uh huh," came my distracted response. My focus isn't on the schedule, or even on the monitor directly in front ... [+]
There was trouble in the air. My naïveté did not sense it. The distrust. The greed. Nobody could sense its forthcoming. It was September of 2013, and my family and I were heading to a celebration ... [+]
Little girls
We are Locked Up
Our only value in our golden hair
And wrinkle-free skin
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A blood-curdling scream of fear silently echoed through my veins as I woke up from a nightmare that left me paralyzed. Sweat started dripping from my head as the uncertainty of life shook my whole ... [+]
My lungs became sore from screaming, but their ears did not become deaf from hearing as I continuously kept pleading to them to let me go. My head started to spin, and I felt pukish enclosed in that ... [+]
We all wonder at times, how we would change the world.
But for some of us we simply don't
... [+]
It's the little things that shine—
The tiny birds hopping or small buds
Peeking through
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There is a beautifully unspoken presence in libraries. It is an immediate sense of home. A calm ... [+]
"Welcome to Titan's. May I take your order?"
"Yes, I'd like a-"
"Chicken nuggets."
"Yes, I'd like a kid's chicken nugget meal-"
"And a McFlurry"
"And a McFlurry-"
"I'm sorry sir. We
... [+]
I know when I've caught
the roaming genius about my garden wall,
and asked her in to dine
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