Stories tagged “censorship”
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Censorship
They call me crazy. I just want to write. Yes, it gets me in trouble sometimes, but that goes with the territory. Here comes another. All day they drop the carcasses of pens down the chute to my cell, devoid of ink, broken tips, beautiful cases snapped...
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Canvas
Surrounded by scratched and scarred, cold metal walls. I ponder. A machine, small enough to, like me, call this prison a home? A beast, so strong it could etch it’s message into this man-made barricade? Hints of color catch my eye. Unable to stan...
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Nothing Comes to Mind
Her hands rose to the keyboard, poised to take flight. They trembled, then dropped back into her lap. Over and over she did this. Tears dropped from her eyes, splashed down her nose and cheeks, fell on her hands. And yet, she typed nothing. Hours passe...
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Smart Mouth
It wasn’t so much the fist that hurt, balled up fingers with with just a trace of fine black hair on the knuckles, to be honest, I barely felt it. It was the helplessness, the injustice of it all that hammered home. The why was only a number, a p...
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This Is a Test
“Wrong answer.” The white slipper drove into my side. “We had a deal. Everybody dives.” “Everybody but you.” Another kick, a soft snap inside me. “We voted. Didn’t we vote, Buckley?” Buckley nodded,...
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Together has moved on.
In accordance with not pissing of the community that I enjoy writing in, I have decided to move this story to somewhere else. However, I do think that we as a society are a little fucked up in the head. We see violence at every turn, each year more gra...