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Very Important People by Gina DeMillo Wagner

You want to tell him you wish you could have gone too. That your mother never picked up the pieces. That there was never enough after he left. Not enough love, ...

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Twenty Six by Samhitha Saiba

I learn that people love having words stolen out of their mouths and fed back to them. I become the world’s most benevolent thief.

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Neighboorhood by Samhitha Saiba

My father eventually left. My sister and I each sealed our own tight gauze over that wound and continued moving, like a tangled flock of geese, toward a future ...

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Night Scavengers By Samuel Autman

The house had other guests too. They were invisible in daylight...