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The first time Rachel found the blue oval pills in her mother's underwear drawer, she was sixteen. At the time Rachel had assumed herself mature enough to deal with the problem all by herself and put hours upon hours into research. She confronted her mother in their living room a week later, who immediately came clean about her addiction. The woman swore to do better and Rachel assumed that it would be enough. She assumed that Clarissa Blake would change solely because her daughter needed her to, and every day Rachel would check her mother’s...
Submitted to Contest #221
Momina was known throughout the school as the girl with no portable device, no social media, and had never made eye contact with a boy. The neighbourhood filled with mostly white people never understood the odd girl, and her peers at school were incredibly frustrated on how to deal with her. Jordan was one such peer. He had known Momina from kindergarten, her and Jordan had been the only ones in their high school to come from their elementary school. They had been neighbours...
Submitted to Contest #220
It was the highest tree in the park behind the rundown building of Asta’s old middle school. A crabapple tree that still supported the weight of the treehouse that was older than herself. Swallowing a bite of its crabapple was a rite of passage at their small town middle school, one that no one failed—except Asta’s best friend, Yvonne. Yvonne was a coward. Even though Asta did not know it back then on their first day o...
Submitted to Contest #196
We met during a time that most considered the end of the world, but because of you, I considered it just the beginning. You had your odd ways and quirks, you would wear your pants low and would never take off your beanie, and for some reason, you never did any of the classwork. You would submit everything on time or a couple of days late but refused to do work in class, instead, you would lounge in your chair and pester me to explain the assignments. I would explain, at first because I did not know how to say no and then it was because I cou...
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