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Submitted to Contest #116
John sat alone by the monkey bars. He watched the other 8th graders laughing and running around the playground. They were playing tag. Knockout. Four square. That wasn’t for him. None of it felt like… him. “I’m my own man,” he thought to himself, and no sooner had he said than a mild wave of insecurity rippled through him. Everyone around him always told him to “open up.” He always “needed” to do something—needed to be more social, to be more exciting, to be less boring, to be more like so-and-so. He was sick of it. As a fourteen-y...
Submitted to Contest #96
The summer of 2008 approached. Seventh grade was all but over, and Mike had made his share of friends. But one stood out in particular: Esther. She was smart and funny and charming in some ways that he couldn’t really describe. He just knew that he really, really liked her. As students signed each others’ yearbooks that May afternoon in Colorado, Mike was concerned. He didn’t want a repeat of last summer. He didn’t want to go weeks and months without hearing a word from his peers. Maybe this summer would be different. “I’ll stay in...
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