Tag: realization
member name: Xen Q.
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July 28, 2007 03:59 PM EDT --
Substance Abuse
It is the last class of the first session of Summer Institute for the Gifted. For the last three weeks, I had been managing five different classes in a row. I may have been the only person . . .
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August 22, 2007 04:33 PM EDT --
Expectations' Ashes
We strive for consistency in our vacation to the shores of Lake George, down to stopping at the same mediocre bagel store we visited last year. Likewise, Emily and I spend the . . .
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October 09, 2006 02:33 PM EDT --
Through the wonders of the internet (a bunch of computers connected together. This actually exists in your time, but only the military and a few colleges use it), I have discovered a way to send you, me . . .
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November 20, 2006 10:16 PM EST --
Then Who's on First?
Written in the second person for no good reason.
Eric smiles his puppet grin at you and says you look like -- and he pauses for a moment, balancing insult against compliment . . .
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September 22, 2006 03:19 PM EDT --
Transition
The only constant is change. I merely wish less change were toward the commoditization of childhood memories.
My family went on our yearly apple picking at Keepsake Farms, presently leased . . .
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March 04, 2007 11:04 PM EST --
Stickshifts and Safety Belts
Zack nixes my yen for buffet style Chinese food, instead guiding me to the Maya Café and I let him because I am not the one who suffered a concussion and severe blood . . .
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April 07, 2007 11:16 AM EDT --
Erythrophobia
I look away from Dan, having a solemn moment with some man seated in 60 Main and declining the music this man is offering him, and see as much loss in Lora's eyes as I just noticed . . .
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October 03, 2006 11:15 PM EDT --
cloud of ironic detachment
The only thing that keeps people from thinking I am insane is my inaction. I emerge into the high school cafeteria and for a moment I want to yell, "This is the only . . .
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November 18, 2006 12:36 PM EST --
Last...
Shane sat cross-legged on her bed doing her assignment. Silver gleamed across her naked thigh, flared red, then pale peach. The stopwatch read 23.55. She measured the flat side of the razor against . . .
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July 31, 2008 09:20 PM EDT --
Apoptosis
Daily, billions of your cells silently die for no other reason that that they were not given any specific instructions. For want of something to do, they will remove their . . .
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October 23, 2006 07:16 PM EDT --
Sarah
The ebb and flow of friendship persists. Some need to drift out to the open sea to find new shores no matter how we tried to hold them. Others wash back onto us under some unanticipated lunar pull. . . .
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April 10, 2007 01:34 PM EDT --
Last...
Shane knew the urban legend that clothing stores used trick lighting and mirrors utilizing borrowed funhouse technology to move more product. Women looked into these magic mirrors and subconsciously . . .
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February 19, 2007 10:03 PM EST --
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Shane came to Girl's room to make sense of what she had read. Despite the degree to which she was ignored, she could find only trivia about Kevin Hawkes. She was not surprised to discover . . .
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