someday_93's published ficlets
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Campfire Council
We had a campfire council that night. That’s when Johnny builds up a big bonfire, an we get to roast veggies. Other kids roas…
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Cornfield
Sarai didn’t like my hair ’s much as I did. “But ‘Rye, look! Now I can run like the boys, an’ you won’t have’ta brush it ever…
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Dirt 'n Caramel
The kids at school make fun of my dress. And my no-shoes. I told Jeremiah on the playground. “Don’tcha ever wish we looked mo…
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New Hope
The other kids at our public school call us the hippies, but we’re not like the flower children or anything. I mean, we dress…
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Show You My Heart
I wish I wasn’t crying too hard to write. I wish the tears weren’t obstructing my vision of the page; I wish the blurriness i…
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Clowns
My mommy says that clowns are nice. She says that they make people smile. But I don’t like them. One gave me a lollipop once,...
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Oh, Cassie...[apology challenge]
This is just to say, I wonder what you would have looked like. You would have been fifteen today, did you know that? No girl …
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Concrete Angel
It’s just a small stone—a little angel girl, tucked away in a far corner, where no one will ever see it. There is no funer…
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And She Flies to a Place Where She's Loved
She looks in the mirror, and tries to squint her eyes so that she looks different.
The bruises cover her body, but they don’...
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But Her Dreams Give Her Wings
She pretends she’s beautiful.
Closing her eyes and watching the pictures behind it, she tries to be somewhere else. She pret…
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In a World That She Can't Rise Above
It doesn’t seem like much, the look on her mother’s face, but there’s a whole other language in faces that few people bother …
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She Stands Hard as a Stone
It’s a normal house, on a normal street, in a normal city. The daffodils bloom on the front lawn, although beaten down by the…
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Through the Wind and the Rain
It was raining. All the children flocking from the elementary school had umbrellas—red, blue, pink, duck print. All accept…
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Me: Blank [defensive challenge]
I stare at my feet, as though my Converse high-tops are currently the most exciting thing in the world, twirling a strand of …
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Too Many To Name...But All Loved {nice things}
I love so many people…how can I pick?
One Time, One Chance: The girl who started as someone to exchange silly notes with…
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Fake-Crayon Words
Everyone’s seen those posters: “Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.” You know, Share Your Toys, Say Nice T…
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Lie
The mirror tells the truth.
All my life, I’ve been taught to lie. “Don’t tell anyone,” whispered into the dark, night after …
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Reflections of A Girl
I can see myself reflected on all sides as I hold onto the barré, my leg extended straight out to the side, my toes pointed t…
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Her Name is Paige
Everything in the hospital was in shades of white and green; a sterile sort of look, but this baby made it all come into colo…
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I Absolutely Love Her, When she Smiles
Mommies and daddies? Oh god… A rush of memories flowed through me, memories of a boy, a boy who always wanted to play hou…
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