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Submitted to Contest #43
Part 1: The Beach The waves had been unusually high that summer. That was what Eliza remembered most clearly. She was eight years old, and her family had gone to the beach for a week, and for some reason, because of the moon or the ocean or climate change, the waves that summer were enormous. She had been scared, at first, to go into the water. For the first few hours, she stayed near the shore where the water barely grazed her ankles. Little by little, however, she went farther and farther out. The water was up to her waist when...
Submitted to Contest #35
“Ow,” Julie said, “you’re pulling my hair.”“Sorry,” Anne muttered, her mouth full of bobby pins. “Why do you have to French braid my hair, anyway?”“Julie!” Anne exclaimed, the bobby pins falling out of her mouth, “You know why! All the boys in our grade will be seeing you for the first time in two months. Would you mind getting that pin for me? I can’t reach it.”“I’ve seen them on Zoom,” Julie said, “and here’s your bobby pin.”“Thank you,” Anne said, putting the bobby pins back in her teeth, “but Zoom does not count.”Julie sighed, twist...
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