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• Poetry > Free Verse
  Suffocating

  

  By LucyK, Greenwich, CT

  Every chance I get (I wish) for you (I could) wish on every shooting star, candle, 11:11 (Take) every penny and loose eyelash But still you’d rather be on (your) own I struggle to take a (breath) as you walk (away) I try not to act (like) (You) put the stars in the sky But when it comes d...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Beautiful Disaster

  

  By LucyK, Greenwich, CT

  It started off slow. I heard the light sounds of rain, like hundreds of tiny fingers tapping on the roof. I walked over to look out the window. I could see the tiny beads of rain colliding with the window, crashing into it and racing each other as they slid down to the bottom. The moon hung in the s...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Fighter

  

  By LucyK, Greenwich, CT

  “What’s on your wrist?” The old woman asks, pointing to the small black tattoo on the inside of my right wrist. “Oh,” I say smiling, and turn my palm up so she can see it clearly, “it’s a tattoo that says ‘fighter’”. For a moment she just stares at it, with nothing to say, bu...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  People Never Notice Anything

  

  By LucyK, Greenwich, CT

  People Never Notice Anything I am sitting here, looking out the window, watching the rain. Ever since Spike disappeared, the house has been so silent, and the rain is the only thing that comforts me. I’m lucky because I live in Seattle, Washington and it seems to be raining her at least 50 pe...