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• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  How to Buy a Plunger

  

  By TheSecretWriter, Mint Hill, NC

  How do you buy a toilet plunger? Well, let me tell you, you don't do it discreetly. Like, a pack of tampons? You just hold them close to your side and walk fast. Maybe drape a T-shirt over them, and leave the shirt on the magazine rack when you get to the checkout. But a toilet plunger? It's big. An...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  I Tip My Hat

  

  By TheSecretWriter, Mint Hill, NC

  Nobody said it would be this confusing, But I did know the grown-ups would find it bemusing. To chuckle and scheme, to dream and to plan, Till I want to scream “I can find my own man!” And how did they forget To tell me I would feel sick? Don’t know how to do it, Just that I should be...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  Just a Few Semesters Longer

  

  By TheSecretWriter, Mint Hill, NC

  Oh Come on, Come on, Come on, Can’t you hold on A little bit longer? Oh Don’t you know? Don’t you know? What doesn’t kill you, Only makes you stronger. So Come on, Come on, Come on, Hang in there, A few semesters longer. Woah, Let `em break you down, Let `em be...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Tears and Stars

  

  By TheSecretWriter, Mint Hill, NC

  Haven’t you ever been eighteen And wanted nothing So much As to just break Free? Haven’t you ever dreamed of a chance, Your very own Chance To make dreams Reality? Haven’t you ever dreamed, Dreamed of a credit card, License, Any your very own little red Car? Haven’t you ...
• Fiction > Romance
  Head Over Heels

  

  By TheSecretWriter, Mint Hill, NC

  So. This is it. The Valentine’s Party of the season. Right foot, left foot, head up, shoulders back. Smile like you were just told you are beautiful. Glance around like you already know what’s going on. Flip hair over shoulder. Think about how adorable your LBD and hot pink heels make you...