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Submitted to Contest #202
In front of me was a room full of small children. They were running, jumping, squealing and crying and they terrified me. I clung to my mother’s hand and tried to hide behind her. One of the little boys detached from the group and came toward me with his hand held out. “Will you come and play with me?” he said. I took his hand and from that moment school didn’t scare me, because Rory was my friend, my helpmeet and my idol. Everybody liked Rory because he was as nice as he was clever. His natural position was top of the class just as mine sho...
Submitted to Contest #195
When I was a very small girl, we had a big grandfather clock. It stood in a sort of alcove on the landing and on one side of it there was just enough space for me to wriggle in and hide. The shiny brass pendulum would swing back and forth, back and forth with a steady regular rhythm and I felt safe in my hiding place beside the grandfather clock. But then I grew too big for the hiding place, and I had to go to school. I would go each morning holding my big sister’s hand but once there I was on my own among all these other little children and...
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