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Weekly Contest #345
(This story contains mental health, physical abuse, and substance abuse in it. Only meant for twelve and up.)How to fit your whole life in one suitcase? Boy, Liam wished there was a book on that one.Those fancy authors, all writing manuals on how to fix a car engine, or how to survive in the wilderness for a year, and yet not one thirty-page book on how to pack up your whole life in one day. Then again, nothing had ever come easily for Liam, and he hadn't expected this would, either. Sixty years ago, being able to leave the dirty, overcrowde...
Weekly Contest #324
I looked out over the vast blue ocean in front of me, the strong sea wind whipping my short brown hair around my face. Mom had loved taking me down here, down to the wide bluff that stretched for miles around the coastline of Nantucket. I remembered holding her hand, listening to her tell me stories about growing up on the mainland, never seeing the ocean, then coming here, and just like that, her life changed forever. She loved the ocean, and considered it a friend. Until that friend betrayed her. I frowned and closed my eyes, trying to for...
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