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Submitted to Contest #54
Everyone’s story begins differently. And mine begins in a circus house. I grew up with a showman for a father and acrobat artist for a mother. We were constantly travelling around the country, waking up every day in a different place. I remember how I’d used to travel in a train, and I would run up and down the corridor each morning waking up everyone. I felt so excited. So alive. The boundary between family and friends is blurred in circus life because we all live together.Surprisingly before we started travelling, we did have a solid home ...
Submitted to Contest #52
I was pacing back and forth as the jitters finally gnaw at me since time was cornering in. I impatiently watch the clocks tiny handle slowly tick as the seconds go by. In the quietness you could hear the tip taps from the hard soles of my shoes from my brutal tapping against the floor bouncing in the long halls decorated in gold and pink. Precipitation was forming at the back of my neck due to how rarely I wore tuxedos. I look back into the mirror attached to the wall and as a reflex touch my now smooth clean-shaved jaw where there used to b...
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