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Submitted to Contest #332
It had been three weeks since I arrived at Raenulie Magic Academy, and I still hadn’t made a single friend. Maybe it was because I was a hopeless book nerd who spent every spare second in my dorm practicing spells instead of actually talking to people. Or maybe it was because the cool, rich, and socially bulletproof students perched at the top of the academy’s food chain never spared me an eye. Or an ear, for that matter, since they usually yawned halfway through my class presentations. So, naturally, I went where all mature, intelligent, an...
The city is quiet and dark tonight. I like it like that. My back rests on a public bench near the city square, where heaps of snow have thickened the ground by several feet. I often come out, in the middle of the night to admire the beauty of falling snowflakes. They don’t plummet to the earth, nor are they easily swept away by the wind—well, unless it’s one of those days—and they always descend without a sound. The way snowflakes fall from the sky feels deliberate, almost graceful, like a quiet ballet I’m allowed to witness alone. It’s that...
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