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What Comes Next... [Wattys 2014]

Poetry

Violet has never stopped running. She lives for the wind on her face, and seeing the blur of cars as they drive by. And she has real problems to run from. An alcoholic mother, an abusive ex-boyfriend, and the lowest grades in school. It's time for V...

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The Drive Back

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by InspiredSilence

by InspiredSilence

takes 4 hours.

But the waiting

in front of my house

feels longer.

I can't go in.

Besides, my stuff is in the back

of Stephen's sucky truck,

never to be seen again.

"Let's go. I ran away for a reason."

"no."

"No?"

"no.

stop running from your problems.

grow a pair,

get help for your mom,

and report Derek."

I've never heard him talk

so sternly before.

His razor tongue scares me.

If I did have balls,

they just shriveled up.