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  Empty

  

  By HaleySNC, Cornelius, NC

  Abandoned dirty disgusting ghosts of bulletin boards past desks lined up like soldiers white boards waiting the start of school the end of summer innocence...
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  Abandoned or Not?

  

  By HaleySNC, Cornelius, NC

  Camera in hand. Eyes wide open. A flower. A piece of grass. A bike. A flake of rust. A house. An unnamed road. Forever a destination....
• Nonfiction > Travel & Culture
  Memories to Last a Lifetime

  

  By HaleySNC, Cornelius, NC

  The sky was still dark; there was no hint of light on the horizon. The hotel was quiet but others joined us as we rushed down the hall to the metro. When the platform came into view, we could see hundreds of people who were already waiting for the train. Breezing past the folks who had to stop ...
• Hot Topics > What Matters
  Peace

  

  By HaleySNC, Cornelius, NC

  A few years ago, I read We Are All the Same by Jim Wooten. It is a story about Nkosi Johnson, a boy living with AIDS in South Africa. Speaking to an international AIDS conference shortly before his death, Nkosi said, “We are all the same.” He was right. If we want to create a culture of peac...
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  Peace

  

  By HaleySNC, Cornelius, NC

  Martin Luther King Jr. wisely said, “True peace is not the absence of tension but the presence of Justice.” In order to build a culture of peace, we must not only eliminate injustices such as poverty and violence, but we must make peace present in our everyday lives by teaching it in our school...
• Fiction > All Fiction
  Babysitting

  

  By HaleySNC, Cornelius, NC

  We walked up and did not comprehend what we were getting into. The house was neat enough. The exterior was rough brick with enormous windows. I glanced toward my sister and then back to the house. I pressed the doorbell. “Ding-dong.” We stood there for a few moments; then, the footsteps ca...
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  Broken

  

  By HaleySNC, Cornelius, NC
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  Waiting for the Game

  

  By HaleySNC, Cornelius, NC
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  Fenced In

  

  By HaleySNC, Cornelius, NC
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  Pure Joy

  

  By HaleySNC, Cornelius, NC
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  Gattita

  

  By HaleySNC, Cornelius, NC
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  Texture

  

  By HaleySNC, Cornelius, NC
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  Sense of Place

  

  By HaleySNC, Cornelius, NC
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  Fall Reflections

  

  By HaleySNC, Cornelius, NC
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  Night

  

  By HaleySNC, Cornelius, NC
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  Reflection

  

  By HaleySNC, Cornelius, NC
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  Gate

  

  By HaleySNC, Cornelius, NC
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  Faces of the Inauguration

  

  By HaleySNC, Cornelius, NC
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  Proud to be American

  

  By HaleySNC, Cornelius, NC
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  Inauguration 2009

  

  By HaleySNC, Cornelius, NC