Stories tagged “abused”
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What Is Love?
Some people ask What is love? There are those who say A gift from above There are others who say It’s gentle as a dove People say It’s a hard road to take Others say It’s not worth the heartbreak I say That the pain Is not always In ...
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A Tortured Creature
To put a piano in a school, unguarded and unprotected, is to leave a lamb with lions, a fly with the spider, a fish with the shark. Unless watched by an angel, and placed in good hands, a school piano becomes contorted, abused, and violated. It’s...
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Descendants
He wasn’t wearing a shirt. Scars wrapped his slender chest, a crisscross layer of disfigured tissue. Frail hands, raw from an excruciating existence, lifted up – a lighthouse of experience. Thin voice wavered, but never ceased. Hepaused to ...