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What Comes Next... [Wattys 2014]

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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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I Love Him Too

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by InspiredSilence

by InspiredSilence

but I just can't say it.

No footsteps,

but my brain is running now.

Running from that

previously sinister L word.

Daddy said it

the night he left.

Mom said it

when she sold my presents

for more beer money.

Derek said it

when I caught him.

I hate that word

because it means nothing

to most people.

Instead I whisper,

undeniably like a third grader,

"I heart you."