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Submitted to Contest #45
I came to this country when I was young from a country full of skin colors that were made of varied colors of brown. Toasted almond, chocolate brown, sandalwood, chestnut brown, and coffee cream. There were so many shades that you couldn’t categorize them if you wanted to. Each one was beautiful. I didn’t meet someone who was white until I was 6 or 7 years old. It wasn’t until then that I paid any serious attention to the color of my skin and what it meant. I remember going to middle school in a predominantly small white town and bei...
Submitted to Contest #44
Peter inhaled deeply and slowly let his breath out. He watched the smoke curl and drift slowly up towards the night sky briefly blocking his view of the starlit night sky. It was beautiful out here. He could see for miles from the roof over the Brooklyn landscape. The lights coming from different peoples apartment homes glowed warm and bright. They seemed to twinkle just like the stars in the sky. He found some comfort in knowing that most of the people of the city were tucked away safely in their homes. Some of them may be sitting in bars a...
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