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• Nonfiction > Memoir
  Heart Strings

  

  By BearPawPrint, Fairfield, CT

  I walked tentatively up to the stage as the applause at my name and selections died down. “At least the crowd is polite”. I thought to myself as my heart beat continued to increase. The pale violet walls seemed to come closer and closer, the gold frame paintings on the walls seemed to be laughin...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Perception

  

  By BearPawPrint, Fairfield, CT

  The lights are on. The lights are off. Sun streams through the windows. Shadows claw the carpet. A girl sits independent, A girl sits isolated, Exploring a book. Confined to a book. She’s nestled in a couch filled with geese feathers, She’s hunched on a couch filled wi...
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  A Box of Gratitude

  

  By BearPawPrint, Fairfield, CT

  The church hall was crowded when I pushed the door open. Great, I thought. Just great. I had been nothing but chipper the whole morning, sitting through the service, talking to a plethora of people, always smiling. I was running out of fake merriment. My mother, of course, had selected a tactical po...
• Fiction > Action-Adventure
  In The Heat Of The Night

  

  By BearPawPrint, Fairfield, CT

  In the heat of the night they forgot about children. Beams fell, and the shouting from outside grew duller, drowned out by the sounds of screams as the house crumbled. The fire waged fierce and tall outside and was quickly burning through the walls. They sat in the corner, crying, or screaming, or ...