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Submitted to Contest #319
Daisy hadn’t meant to find Bigfoot.She’d only gone out to the woods to look for the good pinecones—the big, fat ones her teacher said were “excellent for crafts” but her mom said were “excellent for bugs.” Daisy had a secret basket under her bed where she kept the best ones, along with rocks shaped like potato chips and one really good stick that looked like a wizard staff.That’s when she heard it: the sneeze.It wasn’t a polite little “ah-choo.” It was a cannon-blast-sneeze, like someone had tried to blow the entire forest off its foundation...
I count by blinks.Yours. Hers. His. The ceiling’s slow eyelids when the fan turns and shadows sweep. You learn a lot, sitting still. You learn the lengths of gazes and how to live inside the soft space between them—the pocket of the world where you can move.I do not breathe, but the room does. It inhales when the window opens and the curtain bellies inward, tasting rain and car exhaust and the neighbor’s grill. It exhales when the door closes and the air goes flat and sour. In that shift, in the pause while eyes look away, that is when I spe...
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The Times-Picayune — Special CoverageThe Digital Diary CaseFrench Quarter, New Orleans — March 2011 Article 1 — March 4, 2011Teen Reports Laptop Files Predict Fatalities; Police Seize DeviceBy Camille Robichaux, Staff WriterNEW ORLEANS — Police are investigating a French Quarter teenager’s report that her laptop has been generating documents predicting fatal incidents before they occur.According to an incident report filed Thursday, the family of Elise Landry, 15, contacted authorities after the student discovered multiple Microsoft Word fi...
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