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Submitted to Contest #40
I’d been counting down the days till our first gymnastics class for a month. On the morning of, I got up extra early and asked Mom to put my hair in a bun. She even used hair spray to tame the frizz and wrapped the perfect bun in a red velvet scrunchy she dug out of a drawer in her bathroom. I felt more beautiful than I ever had, and the smell of Mom’s amber perfume lingered in my hair all day. But by the time Mom’s car pulled up outside the school that afternoon, I was distraught; my hair had come loose, the frizzy ends were back, and unrul...
Submitted to Contest #29
As Blair was packing her parents’ car for the drive to college, she felt a subtle pain somewhere in her chest. She was supposed to be excited, but the thought of leaving her best friend nagged like a throbbing splinter she couldn’t get out. Blair had sensed that Celia felt this too and had been trying to hide her worry. At first, she had resented Celia for not being excited for her. Then, refusing to say “goodbye” early that morning, they’d made each other laugh and cry repeating “hello” in between bursts of “I love you” and “drive saf...
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