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No Time For Winter-Chapter Three
Moonlight filters through my window and I can see the dust swirling around my apartment like little fireflies. I really need to clean this place up, I think, as I throw off my bag and slide down onto my couch. We are a few weeks into the new semester and I am already exhausted. Not…
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No Time For Winter-Chapter One
It’s winter and school is out for break. The snowflakes drifting in the air sparkle like stars in the moonlight. I make my way through the sparsely populated streets, snow crunching beneath my boots. That philosophy final lingers on my mind. I’d have had an A if I hadn’t confused John Stuart Mill with his…
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His Call
I can’t keep my eyes from the screen. Ten missed called. A dozen more texts. It was always going to be hard, I knew that, but there’s something different about facing it. Truths don’t hit as hard in the dark. This time of year is always difficult and now I’ve gone and made it damn…
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An Uneventful Narrative-I,III
ACT ONE, SCENE THREE —————————————————————————————————————————————————- House, A Cluttered Room A human form thrashes beneath tangled blankets; a thin blade of light cuts across the room. The form under the blankets settles until a piercing alarm spews a symphony of discordant sounds from the nightstand adjacent the bed. The blankets are thrown into the air; a…
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An Uneventful Narrative-I,II
ACT ONE, SCENE TWO —————————————————————————————————————————————————– An Empty Field, Lone Oak Tree A gawky teen with coffee brown hair sways placidly on a creaking rope swing hanging from a thick oak branch. He lets his feet drag; a plume of dust whirls around him. The BOY’s breath, argent in the frigid air, stands out against the…
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An Uneventful Narrative-I,I
ACT ONE, SCENE ONE —————————————————————————————————————————————————- Hospital Room The room is obscured by shadows with only a single, faint light between two figures, the PARENTS, with their backs turned. An uneasy calm permeates the room; a silent battle is waged within the minds of the PARENTS. A meek knock strikes the door and the two figures…