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Bervalie Merove

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Still Waters

Bervalie Merove

Submitted to Contest #324

“Stop looking at the sea or you’ll get dizzy,” my mother cautioned me for the third time, but my attention remained on the water.It shone in the sunlight, and though the sea appeared to be whizzing past us, the boat gently swayed beneath my feet. Inside, the engines growled within, but I could only hear the hiss of the waves on the hull. The air smelled of salt and freedom. The vast ocean, with its endless blue stretching farther than my eyes could reach, as the boat moved beneath me, I clenched my hands tightly, holding onto the seat, fee...

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What I Wish could undo

Bervalie Merove

Submitted to Contest #323

I woke up to the screams of happiness from the kids. They were all gathering in the same place, as if receiving God himself. Adults and kids were happy, so I went to see what was going on. I saw a black car, and my face immediately lit up because I knew who was inside. It was my aunt—almost like a celebrity to us who lived on the farm—and she had brought her daughter.Every kid wanted to play with her. She was my cousin, after all. Me too—I wanted to play with her. But I never imagined that playing with her would make my life miserable. That ...

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Midnight duel

Bervalie Merove

It was a long and quiet night, like I was in the library; the kind of silence you only get when everyone in the house is asleep. I was at the kitchen table, then I moved to the living room, and ended up in my room. Papers were gathered everywhere. The clock kept going and going. Ten o’clock passed, eleven, and I was still stuck on the same math problem without any idea of how to solve it. It didn’t even feel like math anymore; it felt like it was laughing at me and waiting for me to quit. The answer key was next to me, but I didn’t want to l...

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