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• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Parents

  

  By AliceH, great neck, NY

  Sometimes I wish my parents were divorced and despised each other. I hate it when they gang up on me, combining and morphing into some pestering super-human blob of criticism and judgment. Why is it that as a “Young Adult”, I am entitled to my own vampire fixated genre of literature, large enoug...
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  The Tightrope Walker

  

  By AliceH, great neck, NY

  I slowly walked up the tightrope, placing one leg in front of the other in a careful sequence that I dared not violate. There was a lump in the back of my throat that despite my best efforts, I could not get rid of. I tried to convince myself that my fears were completely illogical. After all, no pr...
• Nonfiction > Memoir
  The Price of Pretty

  

  By AliceH, great neck, NY

  Vanity is wrong. Since ancient times, this concept has been drilled into the heads of young children of almost every culture, since ancient times. In Greek mythology, the beautiful Narcissus turned into a flower after staring at his reflection for too long. In fairytales, Snow White’s wicked stepm...