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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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I'm Halfway Through

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when I hear the door

                          
smash open.

                          
The hinges sound like

                          
a nail on a chalkboard.

                          
I locked the bathroom.

                          
So hopefully I can

                          
get out in time.
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