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Submitted to Contest #48
On Rae Gibson’s sixteenth birthday, she woke up in a cold sweat, her sheets damp and her hair plastered to her forehead. Great, she thought to herself, of course I wake up sick on my birthday. Determined, she rolled into a sitting position on the side of her bed, her feet hitting the hardwood floor lightly. The joints in her body complained, as if the flu had taken up residence in her skeleton. Rolling her neck, she slowly stood and shuffled across the room to the half-closed pocket door to the bathroom she shared with he...
Submitted to Contest #44
“Goodbye?” Luke asked, confused.“I don’t want this life anymore Luke. I want to go home, sit on my gramma’s porch, smell her azaleas, listen to my mother yell at my uncle to stay out of her kitchen. I want to be Rosie again, not Amber Whittier, movie star. I just want to go home.” Amber buried her hands in her hair and walked towards the windows. Luke didn’t move.“This town, this life. It consumes your soul and spits out the ashes after it burns everything away. I’m tired.” She said, defeat filling her voice.&nb...
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