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Oceans (Full Text)
Publication note: “Oceans.” ARNA: The Journal of the University of Sydney Arts Students Society 1 Revived (2008). Winner: 1st place Literature, The University of Sydney Union PALM Awards & associated grant. – On the coast of Maine, to live without the ocean is as improbable as breathing without oxygen. I saw the ocean from my ...
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A Letter, With Love (Full Text)
Dear 16-year-old self: I want to tell you some silly things, and some serious things, and some sad things. I think it might be better if you know them now. I’m doing this because I want to spare you all the pain you’re about to go through. I know that this is selfish, but I ...
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Written (Excerpt)
1. In the House of Prospectives, the future is a game of dreams and chance. The administration takes a new attitude toward work: the basics of the educational process must be observed, of course, but it was a well documented fact that dreamers Write the best books. The rare ones, whose novels sell a million ...
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When My Father Died (Excerpt)
I was in Aspen, Colorado when my father died. He fell from the top of the tall aluminum ladder while nailing new shingles down in patches on our roof. My mother was at work, and with no one home he lay on our back porch for four hours before our neighbor found him. Mom had ...