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Submitted to Contest #103
When I was younger, my grandmother would read me stories from letters that are enclosed in an envelope. Word for word, she would read them and then put them back inside the envelope, then further tell the story with her own words. I had moved out when I turned 24, making sure that I visit whenever my work ended so that our tradition would continue to stand. She never told me who had written these hundreds of letters, nor had she shown me who had written it. It was the endless buzzing of my phone that had woken me up from my peaceful sle...
Submitted to Contest #99
Come here. The memories that comes with the word, the voice that shouts those exact words in my mind.The word still rings and pierces my ears as if it were a thin, painful sound that you hear when a fork and a knife is scratched on a ceramic plate. I still hear his voice, I can see his face, when I look beyond this rock that I am standing on. It had been branded on me like a hot iron pressed against the skin.It was a whisper to my ear, as if the air that surrounds me keeps on reminding me of our summer together. It was both a sweet, magnific...
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