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• Opinion > Discrimination
  Censoring Books, Censoring Freedom

  

  By Inkfingers33, Hatfield, MA

  Picture this: You are standing in a classroom in front of a group of high school students, teaching them about the themes presented in John Steinbeck’s "Of Mice and Men." The students say that the story demonstrates love, friendship, different backgrounds, loneliness, and even the so-cal...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Sweet Ashes

  

  By Inkfingers33, Hatfield, MA

  A dozen pink roses lay atop your departed box. The box, simple and gray, filled with ashes, ashes that once formed your presence on earth. Your name, an identification, carved deep into the headstone. A remembrance, a reminder, of your existence. The sun is radiant, our eyes are m...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Deadly

  

  By Inkfingers33, Hatfield, MA

  I was nine when it took hold of you, your brain, your memories. It was only the first stage and I did not know about it at that time. You were already forgetting some things, but that was what old people do, right? Forget things, I mean. I did not think much of it. I did not know that this...