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Submitted to Contest #276
My mom called to me from our house, which stood on a hill surrounded by fifty miles of verdant forest in Pineville, Missouri. She couldn’t see where I was hiding at the base of an old pine tree. In my lap was a notebook filled with story ideas. I had been working on a story involving a princess who was captured in a prison. I closed it, thinking that I would never get to finish. My mom and dad were always calling me back into the house to clean something or to do my schoolwork, which was boring. All six of us homeschooled that year. As the e...
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