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  The Canal

  

  By liv321, Brooklyn, NY

  It was a clear, hot night and standing under a half moon a girl was smoking a cigarette, despite everything she had grown up being told about them. The girl’s name was Charlotte, and though she was just sixteen, her tall figure and the bags under her dark eyes gave the impression she was almost tw...
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  Your Year

  

  By liv321, Brooklyn, NY

  Your year was the year that the leaves on the tree outside my window didn’t turn orange in the fall. In the spring it had buds and baby leaves and in the summer it presented itself in its fullest splendor; the green leaves filtering the yellow sunlight and turning it gold. But in autumn, the leave...
• Nonfiction > Memoir
  Heartbeats

  

  By liv321, Brooklyn, NY

  The doctor's office always made me nervous. Everything was so sterile and new that my very presence seemed to sully the place. I glanced around at the medical devices hung up on walls and pushed into corners, impressed with their apparent complexity. I had always held a sort of reverence for the ...