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Submitted to Contest #36
March 18, 1989Dear diary, My mum told me that I shouldn’t eat too much chikalata, she said it causes diabeetes and that’s what granpapa has. Granpapa is in the hosiptol. She said for me to not worry. She said there are nice people in the hosiptol. She also told me that if I eat too much sugar I might get diabeetes and people with diabeetes have to take a shot every day and poke their finger with a needle to see if their blood is good. I hate needles. So I told mama that I would try to eat less of the chikalata. It was hard.December 9,1990Dea...
Submitted to Contest #8
There was no direction into which we were going. Our last canteens were half empty and no one drove by to rescue us. Our clothes covered in sand and sweat. Our faces dirty and eyes squinting to see past the sun's rays. I dragged myself past the scorching sand as I spotted a palm tree with some shade. I dropped myself near the trunk and sighed. It was my sister that dragged us into this. “You had to do this. I told you!”. “I'm sorry for the hundredth time”. “Uuughhh”, I grunted and closed my eyes. An hour and seven minutes ago according to my...
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