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Blue Butterfly: “Exploitations of Innocence” Excerpts
Valerie Twyman I was born an identical twin. Many years ago, I looked up the meaning of our names. Vera, who died after living for only...
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A Child’s Panes
Caroline Cottom Texaco Man Daddy’s footsteps on the stairs shake the house he flips on the bathroom light flushes the toilet hard...
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where began it?
Jess Woolford where began it? this sense: safety stolen? was it back there? schoolyard where boys tracked took you down ...
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How to Burn Down a Tree Fort
Joan Clare You are not a pyromaniac. You are merely an extremely unhappy 12-year-old girl who gets her hands on a real book of witchcraft...
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My Sister's Brother
Clay Jones “Would you PLEASE set the table!” Mom laughed with a smile. That was our job. I got water for four and my sis Becky, four...
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It was years before I understood not all my playground friends…
Tracie T. Nichols choked on unsought moisture forced through every mucus-lined threshold a small girl body forms in trusting fetal...
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