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Submitted to Contest #51
Never in my entire childhood had I ever seen a living, breathing rat.Maybe cockroaches, not to be confused with palmetto bugs, the ones that live in the trees and slap you in the face when the porch lights come on.But it’s South Florida. You expect that. Insects and reptilian creatures breed here and hang around longer than tourists from the north; the snowbirds, New Yorkers and Canadians. But I never saw rats. Not until now.I held on tightly to the key – loaned to me by the head of the demolition team who was now dozing in his work truck ac...
Submitted to Contest #50
It is after midnight and I sit back-to-back with my mentor and director on the cold, granite steps of the historic Old Post Office Pavilion, a massive Romanesque Revival-style structure with a Clock Tower that soars 300 feet into the bluish-black sky. It occupies an entire city block on the north side of the Federal Triangle along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, and is now the home of the National Endowment for the Arts, created in the sixties to embody hope, to nurture American creativity, and to elevate the nation’s culture. It fina...
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