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In sixteen years, she will leave the garden. She will tell the buyers of the house how to tend each patch and plant, carefully, and theyâll do it for a while and then the garden will fall apart, because they have other concerns. The soil remembers, though. The soil always remembers. In eleven years, her firstborn child will pick unripe blueberries in mid-spring, try to taste them and recoil from the sour. She will laugh and take pictures on whatever the equivalent of a phone camera is in ten years. Sheâll post them on whatever the equivalent...
Weekly Contest #31
On Sunday, Mina went into Smileyâs for a box of Tic-Tacs. At 6 pm, the right hour to be miserable if you got nothing done with the day. The sun was definitely not visible any longer, and there went the day, just like every other day for the past month. Sheâd hoped getting out of the house would make her less miserable, but she just felt worse. Seeing the gloom of blue shadow settle over the March evening was not any less depressing than seeing the inside of her room. Wow, she thought. A walk all the way down the block. Soooo impressive. Real...
Weekly Contest #30
The door said âLibrary Elves Only.â Aline hated this. She hated that there was a part of the Library to which she didnât have access. To be fair, she probably shouldnât have even been able to see it. Sheâd waited until one of the elves left a book-ladder unattended, then scrambled up it and leapt from shelf to shelf until she reached the great scaffolding that the elves used to get around. It was such fun up there, until she found the door that forbade her. Aline respected the rules of the Library, and even if she didnât, the door would not ...
Weekly Contest #29
I wasnât born with the necklace. I woke up with it one morning when I was ten years old. I didnât remember putting it on, but then again, Iâd had a pretty eventful night. Iâd stayed over at Ninaâs house until 8 pm, unprecedentedly late for me. It was for Ninaâs eleventh birthday, but you wouldnât have known that Nina was the star of the night, because Amber was the one everyone focused on. Because Amber had gotten that most precious of honors: the first one in the grade to get a boyfriend. âI knew it,â Lia said to me in a stage whisper, when...
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