Every step is forced, intense. Her
pacing is out of sync with the sidewalk cracks. One, two
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2 min
Rick hadn’t figured out what he was going to do on this date. He had been building up the courage to ask her out for weeks and weeks, and he had always thought that the details of the night would ... [+]
I touch my hand to the grass and it comes away wet so
I am unable to sit down.
How my hand
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A man wearing a short, black hat sits on the same bench as me. I sit on one end, and he sits on the other. The bench lines the long, tall widows that face the small parking lot attached to the ... [+]
I am leaving for college tomorrow and
I am afraid that when I return home next
my bedroom
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Life rings of eternity
So stuck in fall I didn’t see if before,
rebirth after rebirth
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The giant machine was almost empty, and had been that way for the last three centuries. When the man had found it, slowly sinking into the lazy sand of the trackless wastes of the Gobi, it had already ... [+]
I’ve got forty lines for a poem,
Maybe three hundred words if I’m clever,
But I have no
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It all started on the first day of school, Gunther was a new student at Windcastle High. He wasn’t your typical teenage boy; he perceived the world “differently.” He first saw her when he ... [+]
This PC > My Drive (C:)
This PC > My Drive (C:) > Documents
Folder: University Assignments
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Roger was very good at planning and very bad at being alone, which is why he’d always selfishly hoped to marry someone at least five years younger than him.
He knew he’d have to wait a few
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It was after 10:30 at night. I was surrounded by towers of nondescript apartment complexes over 20 stories high, though the middle courtyard was graced with beautiful trees hiding maze-like ... [+]
At the age of five I was fearless. As a child, identity seemed fluid, and it felt limitless. We could be bold, or we could be random. The ways of expressing ourselves felt boundless. And while there ... [+]
“Private Calcelmo.” Commander Martins bellows, his voice ringing sharply in my ears, cigar wobbling up and down like a fishing bobber.
I sigh tentatively in relief as Calsy moves to stand
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