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Submitted to Contest #315
This short story mentions brief substance abuse, self-harm, and talk of suicide.--- I can remember the day fairly well. It rained the night before, so the ground was still wet, the grass was shiny, and full of rain. It was warm but not quite sunny. I knew my mom had court this morning, but I tried not to worry. My mom and my aunt Cathy had been telling us not to worry about it since we were sixteen, nearly adults, so they wouldn't waste their time on us. So I kept on telling myself that. But when I asked my mom how court went, she wouldn'...
Submitted to Contest #58
I was on my way out of the hospital when a storm came in out of nowhere. It was quite odd, as it was a warm summer day, not even a cloud in the sky. As the clock hit 10 pm, I cleaned up my desk as quickly as possible without causing a scene. I had a date with my new neighbor, who happened to love Chinese take out and a scary movie just as much as I do. I had been thinking about our date all day, it was the only thing I could focus on, it had been one of the slowest days of the summer, only a hand full of patients, most of them dumb teenagers...
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