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  Masquerade

  

  By Majika, Gainesville, FL

  On the edge of civilization A babe is born with complications. Her darling face peeks out from a shawl, The mother, first setting eyes on her daughter, Examines the flawed features, and suddenly bawls. “She is ruined, forever,” she desperately cries, “Who brought about my poor child'...
• Nonfiction > Travel & Culture
  Galapagos Islands

  

  By Majika, Gainesville, FL

  No one will ever forget a journey to the Galapagos Islands, if they make one in their lifetime. I am one of those amazingly fortunate people who have had an opportunity to briefly visit this Pacific archipelago. Edging ever nearer is the close of our 2007 trip to Ecuador. Already, the H*******s, a...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Gone But Not Forgotten

  

  By Majika, Gainesville, FL

  I stride through the long, silent hallway for the nth time. It’s all a waiting game, a terrible, cheerless one that refuses to end. The second to last room on the left’s door is cracked open. I peer inside and get hit with the contagious mood of everyone else. Sniffles and frowns are an epidemic...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  September 1, 2009

  

  By Majika, Gainesville, FL

  The alarm clock at my bedside signals 8 o’clock in the morning of the first of September, 2009. Another day has passed, and I’m twenty four hours closer to one or more of the following: extreme disappointment, joyful exuberance, or being altogether angry and unresponsive. On the nineteenth day o...