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Submitted to Contest #47
The crackle of the fireplace harmonizes with the whistling of the winds that shake the glass windows. These sounds drag you back to cold winters at the orphanage, where you’d sit alone watching the flames tickle the air. Your rough feet would extend out to the fire to capture the feeling of the heat smoothly running down your calloused toes and trickle to your sore heels. Even surrounded by so many children like you-abandoned, unloved, and broken- you have never felt so alone. The only embodiment of warmth coming from a small fireplace. A...
Submitted to Contest #35
Heather the hellish hen. That’s what I liked to call her. Cacophonous clucking in the early morning hours at five minutes past daybreak classified us all as early birds. The only reason that miserable hen was still alive was because the owner, Miss Madeline was the only qualified baker, to my standards anyway. I loved my warm, flaky, raspberry pastries every Sunday afternoon. I fumbled around my covers, blindly searching for my ballpoint pen. I had officially finished my workout- my leaden eyes were at least fifty pounds each. As per my rout...
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