Differences-Dialogue Only
"Why do you dislike the country so much?"
"Same reason I could guess you dislike the city, if you tweak it a bit."
"Oh, like I don't like too many people and you don't like it if there aren't enough?"
Fiction
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Survivor
This story was inspired by the song “Safe Place to Land” by Sara Bareilles, featuring John Legend. This song has a very sad tone to it. -
Volcano
Heat spreads across the ground singing my sneakers, and smoldering. I am currently a quarter mile from the base of the volcano, I have time. Running I look desperately around for my parents, they are nowhere to be seen. -
The exploding person
On june 3rd of 2043, it was the middle of the summer. Everyone was having fun on the beach, making sand castles and having picnics, except for me. I am the one kid who was smart enough to stay indoors on that hot sunny summer day. -
Pieces
The best, and possibly, the first thing — or, at least, the first thing I remember, anyway— that my mother ever told me, her arms wrapped around my small body, black hair glinting in the firelight, was, "Your heart is not a cond
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Keep On
I walk, silent, my fingers sliding across the moist bark, knuckles brushing soft moss, the pads of my feet just barely making a sound against the leaves blown across the ground.
My back aches. My knees creak.
I keep on. -
The Best Summer
As the girls sit on the dock and watch the sun go down, they talk about how it's just the beginning of the summer and all the fun that they are going to have in the next three months. -
Complacency
I tended the small garden outside my small cottage for many years. I grew peas and poppies and rosemary. It was a nice garden. -
The way we see Sky
Roger: I see Sky every day on my way to school. He walks by himself, but I don’t know where he lives. I never really talk to him, except for one time back in third grade when we were partners in gym class. -
Above Your Station (chapter one)
Chapter one - Lust and Loss (Lyric) -
K-8 and the Grand Reunion Transcript
(This is the transcript for an audiodrama. Click the link to listen to the episode. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1231289/5210023-k-8-and-the-grand-reunion) -
Extraterrestrials Real or Fake?
Are other beings out in space; have they possibly visited this planet without humans realizing? Do they possibly lurk on the planet every day with humans being unaware of their presence?