Stories tagged “opposites”
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On the Road with Quixote
“You are the worst clown I have ever met,” Don Quixote said with as much disapproval as he could muster. The clown sniffed. “And you’re crazy, old man,” he replied, picking at a piece of lint on his blue-and-yellow motley....
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Like Vampires and Aliens
Star wasn’t a typical girl at all but she came from the white-picket-fence family . Yet, Star wasn’t into so-called normal activities. She strayed away from the sun opting to adopt a near palish color, her hair long and black with a streak ...
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J and E
He tells me I’m too innocent — that I’m naive. But the truth is that he’s jaded and beaten down. He doesn’t see in color anymore. He thinks people are watching him. He says he’s not relationship material, that he doe...
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You. (Oh...and me)
So, here we are on either side of a table in an room as gloomy as an undertaker’s office. Funny that. We last saw each other at a funeral. You’ve grown your hair so that it’s as long as mine and I hate you for it. It’s what I di...
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Opposites in the same place
I threw my hood over my head, and ran to the porch to get out of the rain. I hesitated in knocking on the door. Friends, family, society-they all considered us two to be polar opposites. Me entering his house would be, unheard of almost, frowned upon. ...