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Weekly Contest #345
That morning Mama and Baba were having another one of their secret conversations after breakfast. I heard it, though. I hear almost all of the conversations they hide from us kids because they don’t want to worry us. I’m the oldest of me and my four siblings, though. I can handle it. In this particular conversation they were talking about how the fighting outside the city was getting worse by the day. I’d heard rumors like that before. But nothing had ever actually happened. This time shops were closing early, the pharmacies were almost out ...
Weekly Contest #257
I hate being poor. I hate that we’re always sleeping in homeless shelters and sometimes on the streets. I especially hate how I never had the opportunity to finish high school, let alone go to college. Thrift store clothes, cheapest of the cheap. It’s normal to me now, but that doesn’t mean it’s okay. We pretty much walk everywhere we need to go. School for my siblings, work for me and my mom, the store every once in a while when we can afford it. Sometimes we’ll take the bus downtown for things like doctor appointments. I'm seventeen and my...
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