Until that day, fear had been an idea, a concept. Now it was real: a feeling I would carry inside me for the rest of my life. The day began innocently enough, with us going to town, to buy food. We were heretics, people sentenced to die, but I never worried because no one knew. …
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Cordelia likes to quote Shakespeare in arguments or "life defining" moments, and every now and then she'll set an alarm to wake up in the middle of the night just to look at the stars. Arnold is a "pacifist." He doesn't fight for or against anything. He just laughs and drives and nods his head …
I say to him, "I know she has some sort of dark past. Something bad or..." And I catch myself. Jason laughs. "Don't you already know?" Don't you know everything? I hate him. I can only reach the first layer of his thoughts and it's always dripping with sarcasm. "In one memory, I saw you, …
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The sky is so blue. She closes her eyes and imagines that she's falling. Falling. Falling, from very far away. Clouds surround her, and she starts to sin. The ground looks like her great aunt's quilt. The air is so pleasant up here. A noise disturbs the silence. She opens her eyes to see a helicopter approaching from one …
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