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  Dirty Clothes, Dirty Skin

  

  By ClaireBearB, Fayetteville, NC

  “Man, you filthy! You need a bath! Look at you! All that dirt!” “Ay Liam, I got some ‘soap’! I betcha if we scrub hard enough we can get him good and clean!” “Ready for a bath Tobias?” It wasn’t really a bath they wanted to give me. I wasn’t really filthy because it wasn’t...
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  Silence.

  

  By ClaireBearB, Fayetteville, NC

  I watch them in silence. I want to say something, but I don’t. I can’t. If I did, they would know I was there and it would all be over for me. I’d be sent away, where I couldn’t watch and hear and KNOW. Too bad for them, I already knew. I’d been crouched in my cozy (cramped) place behin...
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  Little Plans

  

  By ClaireBearB, Fayetteville, NC

  The little girl is shaking. Her blue eyes are wide with fear, her face is pale- like the color of paper, and her white blonde hair is everywhere, making her look like she is insane. Her mouth is drawn in a thin line, so thin; it looks almost as if it was drawn on with pencil. She is huddled in the c...
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  Deceptions

  

  By ClaireBearB, Fayetteville, NC

  “Deceptions” “What did you say your name was, dear?” asked the secretary, looking up from the computer into the girl’s big brown eyes. The eyes weren’t really brown. But the secretary didn’t need to know that. “Ashley Smith” the girl lied, smoothly, and easily. Because, you s...
• Fiction > Romance
  Stars

  

  By ClaireBearB, Fayetteville, NC

  ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** My name is Mira. I don’t know what my last name is. I doubt I’ll ever know. All of my life, or at least, for as long as I can remember I’ve lived on the streets, by myself for most of the tim...