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Submitted to Contest #329
People talk about “skeletons in the closet” like they’re shameful secrets or bad decisions from a messy younger version of ourselves. But that’s not what skeletons really are.A skeleton is anything we refuse to face.A wound we never opened.A truth we never named.A need we never acknowledged.A fear we learned to hide.A belief we accepted as “just how I am” without ever asking where it came from.Skeletons aren’t reminders of what happened. They are reminders of what we never healed.The dangerous thing about skeletons is this: they don’t stay w...
Submitted to Contest #328
It was late morning, about a month before the California-based assessment testing was set to begin. Each of the kids was in their own space—separated so no one distracted the others—practicing lessons I’d printed and organized for the week. I moved from child to child, checking answers and keeping everyone on track. We had a good rhythm going when a knock came at the door. I opened it to find my mother standing there. Just standing. No phone call beforehand, no reason I could guess—though that wasn’t unusual. She never really called first, b...
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