It wasn’t as much of a room as it was a stadium. A musky fog obscured the floor, dampening his hair with droplets of mist, made out of sickly green liquid. Tall metal poles stretched upwards, flashes of light dancing between them in clouds of vapor, reflecting off the slick gray walls. Dried patches and […]
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Chapter 1: A Somber Friday by Emily Chafe
On a somber Friday morning, the sky dark and foretelling of rain, the mighty pines swayed and shook from strong wind. Bitter air nipped at my dry skin and my legs lightly brushing against ferns that sat on the edge of the path. A flock of birds conversed somewhere in the expanse of the forest, […]
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My wet feet create patterns against the cold gray rock beneath. Ice cold water splashing gently so far down below. I say something and my voice carries, bouncing off rocks, repeating over and over again. Goosebumps arrive with the cold breeze that drifts in the air. The lake below stretches for miles and […]
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As I walk on, even though my legs are burning and it seems like I am walking at a snail’s pace… I am suddenly at the top. There are no trees here, just bushes sprouting out of the cracks of rock. Soon the reason we came to the mountain comes to […]
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One late summer afternoon, when the fields of sun-kissed grass danced and the sun had begun to disperse into brilliant streaks of orange and pink, a little girl stumbled upon the worn, crumbling path, leading into a never-ending golden meadow. Her skirt was frayed and exhaustion filled her but through the blazing sunlight, she continued […]
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