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Submitted to Contest #105
This man, who's my father, is in hospital, even though I’ve never seen him before. He looks exhausted and ill, nothing like how he used to be. When did it all start? He doesn’t stay awake long when I come to visit. I don’t think he likes me seeing him like this. He says “you shouldn’t be coming here to see me all the time. I’ll be fine by next week, just watch”, even though he never is. I wish other people would come. It would really take the pressure off. I wouldn’t have to come every day. He’d be heartbroken if I didn’t show up one day. He...
Submitted to Contest #58
Some things cannot be replaced with electricity. Something so engraved into human life today still fails to compare to things like climbing to the top of a mountain and feeling the wind hit your face, or running so fast as a kid that you felt as if you would never stop running. It can’t even replace the simplest of things, like the sky on a clear night, when all the stars are present to greet the world. But the world rarely greets it back, as we are too occupied with staring down at our screens, rather than looking up and admiring the sky. ...
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