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Bess Swartz

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And Then I Saw It

Everything changed the day I went on the plane. It could’ve been different. I should’ve known what was to come. It all started with my parents' idea to fly me across the world. I was six years old. I had never been on a plane before, but it was my only choice. We weren’t welcome there anymore. They were looking for us. We took what we could, which wasn’t a lot, but it was at least more than nothing, like Aunt Gina. She tried to escape, but someone stopped her. We don’t know who. But she’s six feet below ground and gone. We had to leave, so w...

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Her Story

Weekly Contest #353

She was the most beautiful in all of the land. No one could challenge her beauty, despite numerous attempts to undermine it. People gossiped about how it was almost impossible to have a face and body that pretty. Although she was pretty, she wasn’t humble. She bragged to her ugly brothers and sisters, born from her sea witch of a mother, about how ugly they were and how pretty she was. People came from all over to see her beauty, and everyone envied her. One day, she swam up to a rock in the middle of the sea and started bragging out loud ab...

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And Then I Saw It

Weekly Contest #350

Everything changed the day I went on the plane. It could’ve been different. I should’ve known what was to come. It all started with my parents' idea to fly me across the world. I was six years old. I had never been on a plane before, but it was my only choice. We weren’t welcome there anymore. They were looking for us. We took what we could, which wasn’t a lot, but it was at least more than nothing, like Aunt Gina. She tried to escape, but someone stopped her. We don’t know who. But she’s six feet below ground and gone. We had to leave, so w...

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