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Submitted to Contest #53
The noon appeared at the corner and another wave of heat flicked my face with flaming fingers. I was lying down on the grass, enjoying the brief moments of summer breeze. Today was just the same as the other days of summer: hot, sticky, and nauseous. My fragile legs, my mom always said that they looked like wooden sticks, could never handle the accumulating drops of sweat rolling down my knees. Everything was saturated and it made me sick even to think or see. I was licking my...
Submitted to Contest #51
The whole city was asleep except for the annoying clatter of the crickets and the stars were scattered across the sky to witness the thoughts rooted deep in the curves of my mind. They were pouring out of my lips in smoke, pressuring my temples to scream the hatred and low self-esteem that I was destined to run away but never leave behind. I stormed out of the home, and I knew I was ready to take the blow of thick night on my chest. You were sitting on the half-collapsed garden wall; the petals of white roses rested on your tangled ha...
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