Stories tagged “college”
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Single Socks
I looked at the bar of soap in the dish by the faucet and wondered if it was going to remember me. Back in my room, the half-full closet was looking half-empty. There was a tv too big for the dorm room, a few scattered pens and pencils, a mountain of d...
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Life Light
In high school I was average. Average grades. Average hair. Average everything. I wasn’t popular, or the weirdo—and for the record—I wasn’t the slut either. My upbringing wasn’t one that would appear on Oprah. I came from ...
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Sentimentality
One after another, I stuffed my belongings into my suitcase, working efficiently. I had never been the sentimental type; even as a child, I had tried not to assign feelings to inanimate objects. Things got lost, burned in fires, shrank in the laundry. ...
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A Note Left on a Refridgerator
Alright, Dude. This is not easy for me to ask, but I need your help. Let me repeat, I NEED your help. This is not an option. I’m bringing a girl home tonight, and… well…. I’m desperate. And she thinks I’m a lot better at c...
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Upon a Star
Her eyes twinkled, just like they had years before, when we lay beneath the stars, full of summer love and heat. The grass had pricked our skin, but we hadn’t noticed, completely absorbed in each other and the magnificent starscape above. It was ...
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That's College For Ya
“Collin Firth my ass!” Sam spoke, bringing the beer bottle to her awaiting lips. We had been sitting together for the past, nearly, eight hours watching different versions of Pride and Prejudice. Nearly eight hours of arguing. “Sammie...
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The Closet Poet, Commissioned
“I was more reckless then, see. My days were saturated with cigarette smoke and my girlfriends’ perfume.” Trisha Macintosh, therapist extraordinaire, leaned back against her seat, smiling wryly as she tapped her lip with a pen. “...
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Installing a Snow Leopard
“Because he’s my brother and, hence, clueless,” Tara said, appearing before us with her arms crossed. She reached out to caress Nadia under the chin. “But you know, you’re right. I think I would like to get ‘under yo...
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11/01/2011
11/01/2011 Dear Pearly, Perhaps you wouldn’t believe me, but yes, I’m currently living in Year 2011. I’m the future you. Freak out now, because I did freak out when I saw this letter. Breath in, out, in, out, in, out. Throw out all your classics ...
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Laying on the Floor
On the bare floor of the now cleared out apartment, Valarie lay as still as she could. Her clothes had felt cumbersome and false, projections of assumed expectations, so she shed them. The fan circled lazily doing little more than giving urgency to the...
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A Kiss
“This place is still beautiful.” I looked around. “Yeah, I guess it is.” We were sitting on an old fallen log on my parents’ land, amidst a field of tall grass and old trees. It hadn’t meant much to me as a child, bu...
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Buzzer Hour
“I don’t know why I did it, Hav, it was a mistake, " Trevor said to me a few moments after the psych told him he could respond. “I told you I didn’t want you to go to that party,” I replied looking down at my hands. I...
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Watching
He watched the girls do cartwheels. Their hair flew and whipped around. They were all laughing. Even when the sprinklers came on. It was odd seeing normally prim-and-proper girls getting their hands dirty in the ensuing mud stew. He wondered how dirty ...
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Jumper
‘Hey babe.’ ‘Hey Tommy you made it.’ Tommy slid into a seat across from Steffi, pushing a tray of burgers and fries between them and smiled. Grabbing a straw he jabbed it into the coke. ‘Hey I wouldn’t leave my best girl alone at lunch,’ ...
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Quitting Time
The Flaming Roosters were finishing their last set of the night when Joe looked up and saw Angel walking toward the back. She waved and mouthed ‘bye’ as she disappeared into the crowded smoke. Joe nodded as he was filling up another pitcher of chea...
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The Next Morning
I woke up and it was still morning so I groaned. My head was throbbing as I lit a ‘boro and walked into the bathroom. I kicked my roommate Dave in the foot as I walked back into the bedroom. ‘Hey jerk, wake up.’ He didn’t even move as I pulled ...
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It Makes Me Smile
It makes me smile. I watched them grow up. I grew up with them. I taught them as much as they taught me. My sons are grown men now and in college. They come and go as they please. The refridgerator is always empty. Their beds, never made. The laundry b...
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A Night With Rodney Candycane, Railroad Tycoon
“Let’s build us some railroads for speedy transportation! Maybe someday even _people_’ll walk ’em!”
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Free Period
Coursework is looming How long? I should so do it You think? Ha! Yeah right
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NEXT!
“Next!” Johnny hates this job. Each time standing there taking pictures for these smiling idiots makes Johnny want to puke through his fake smile . Being a photographer for college Grad pictures is not what he had in mind when he dreamed bi...
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Phased Lock Loop
The Gadget was resplendent with switches and dials and pulse-chasing LED displays that made it look both complex and important. That was intentional on the part of its designer-builder. Kelly had a flair for the dramatic. Everyone said so. The MIT Doct...