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Weekly Contest #130
It's what you tell yourself. To let go of the dream of a family. It's what everyone tells you..but me..my brain. I can’t seem to give up on that hope. Perhaps something is supposed to break inside you when you’re tossed from home to home. Perhaps your spirit is meant to be crushed when your parents abandon you. Perhaps that's why so many of us end up criminals. Not me though. “Melvin.” I glance up, broken from the thoughts that haunt me. Though not really, the dialogue is always there in the back of my mind, even if it's sometimes quie...
Weekly Contest #50
I am a tall tree with branches reaching from the bottom of my body to the very tip-top. Birds often land in me to rest. I love the feeling of their feet wrapping around my smaller branches. It tickles a bit. I even have a little blue bird who nests in me year-round. The best of mothers she is. I am proud to have her. And it always brings me great delight to hear her young ones chirp for the first time every spring. She brings them worms and warmth and I play my part. Sheltering them among my many arms. Squirrels climb me as well. Running all...
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