He sits all alone at his desk in school. He wants to fit in but he just isn’t that “cool”. His clothes are old and his family is poor but no one cares. He’s just a kid next door. They tease him because his grades aren’t all that good. He cries in the corner hiding [...]
What it’s like to be rejected
Ready to start a brand new year she makes her way to school, with hopes that on the popularity list she’d be with the cool. She finds her class and walks inside to wish she’d never came. The way they talked and things they wore made her feel ashamed. She looked don at her tattered [...]
NIGHTFALL IN MEDLOW BATH
(1)My first Blue Mountains journeys were on Sydney’s country trains, With scenery improving, once I’d gone past Emu Plains. I did not know the passengers around me, but perhaps one Might care to play a card game, since we’d only come to Lapstone (2)I closed my vintage fiction novel fast. So I could then look, [...]
Random
Do you envision many paths? Do you wonder which one to take or where each one leads?What will it take; what will each path cost? Can you see where it is that you want, and need, and should go? Are there others in tow? A miss step, a delay…another set back, another delay. Is the [...]
Au Revoir
1 Present Day It was the first Monday in weeks when I was not in office before ten. As I saw the frosted sundial of my old citizen ticking eleven thirty, I cursed myself for the umpteenth time for choosing that insurance company. I found out that the other companies did not require so many [...]
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