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Submitted to Contest #116
The Things I Wrote By Jennifer Leigh Kiefer In sixth grade, you stopped me in the hall by our lockers. You had noticed I was reading a book you liked. I was new to the school; you were my first friend. By seventh grade we had a friend group that was inseparable. Bonded by books, bonded by the written word. We spent our time writing stories and acting out the ones we read in the woods by your house. Out there we could do and be anything....
Submitted to Contest #48
“Welcome home, dear,” my fiancé, Gregory, called from the bedroom. It was far too late for him to still be awake, but he always waited up for me. I paused in the bathroom to wipe the blood off my face before Gregory could see me. “Everything go according to plan?” he inquired when I joined him in our bedroom. “It always does,” I shot him a smile before slipping off my blood-soaked black jumpsuit. Gregory pulled me toward him, and after the long night I had, I was not about to say no to his comforting embrace. Once I was c...
Submitted to Contest #24
I surveyed the damage and knew I would be getting dirty looks from our “clean up” team for weeks. My supervisor, on the other hand, had nothing but praise. “That’s the third gang leader you’ve taken down in as many weeks. I thought you’d be tired by now. How do you do it?” How indeed. I would love to say I was just born incredibly talented or I spent my entire childhood training 24 hours a day for this, but that’s not the case. I guess I was born with something, but I’m not sure it could be conside...
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