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Nostalgic Places (A novella)

TheRightToWrite

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Reads 551
Votes 141
Parts 21
Time 1h 16m

TheRightToWrite

contemperary dad drama family featured featurme fiction friends friendship hope lost mom music run runaway scared sister teen teenager teenfiction

"Some people had a way with animals. I had a way with the sky."

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Zoë Essa is a fifteen year old girl with problems; she lies to her "friends",  doesn't trust people, has trouble sleeping all the time, and can't seem to express her emotions. Her mother is more of a train wreck than she is, constantly smoking, eating, and swearing at Noelle, Zoë's older sister. 

When Zoë starts reading a book on a sunny day, she comes across this sentence:  Running away changed everything.  She gets a prospect, one that should stay in the ideology of fiction, even though she thought of reality: What if she ran away from home?

When Zoë decides to stay at a Motel across town, she encounters Lola, an alcoholic woman who owns the place, and Theodore, Lola's niece, a sixteen year old boy who paints pictures more beautiful than words - these are the two people that will give her what she wants, despite not knowing WHAT she wants: hope.

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