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Aidan Scherer

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Memoir of a Pianist

Weekly Contest #309

"You've made it!" the infamous phrase that everyone with a big dream or ambition longs to hear. Maybe it's some sort of sick way for us to feel like we matter in this world filled with billions of other people. We chase this dream with a ferocity unlike anything else in our lives. We make countless sacrifices in order to achieve this dream, so much so, that it becomes an obsession. It makes it feel like our life has meaning. It gives you value and without value you're nothing but another piece of matter taking up space, or at least that's wh...

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What lies beneath the abandoned house on Vermont St.

Weekly Contest #300

Six days out of the week I would wake up at 5 A.M. to do the paper route for my hometown, Richmond, Massachusetts. Where I would go from block to block delivering everyone's newspaper; I’d pass by my friend Jimmy's house as he would come outside at exactly 6:05 AM everyday of the week to wave and say hi to me as he grabbed his family's newspaper that I had just dropped off that morning and hurriedly get on his bike to catch up and join me. "Man, isn't it great that we don't have school today!", "Yes Jimmy, it is Saturday after all.", as he t...

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