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Nostalgic Places (A novella)

TheRightToWrite

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Parts 21
Time 1h 16m

TheRightToWrite

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"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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