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  By Becki S., Avon, CT

  “Cam” Hearing her voice, Cameron whips around to face her, turning his back to the devastating screen of his laptop. “Hey baby, what’s up?” his voice hitches at the end, like a question within a question. “Nothing, just wanted to see what’s u...
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  By Becki S., Avon, CT

  It was the hottest day we’d had yet, temperatures surely breaking 95, and humid, and the whole group was lounging in the shade, wilted from the morning of tennis and plodding through the daily hour of reading. Sitting “criss-cross applesauce” next to me, six-year-old Mylea was movi...
• Nonfiction > All Nonfiction
  The Best Kind of Superhero

  By Becki S., Avon, CT

  I woke up just as we got off the highway at our exit. I peered out the window at the church I never knew the name of, at the familiar stoplights and street signs, marveling that no matter how deeply asleep I am, I always manage to wake up at exactly this point. The silent bends in the road, the dark...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  back there

  By Becki S., Avon, CT

  back there when we simply didn’t care that the rain clung to our hair, our tangled shoulders, wet and bare completely unaware that life is not quite fair....
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  Flower-Girl

  By Becki S., Avon, CT

  She is delicately built And she can never quite relate; Her skin made of a petal quilt, And shoulders etched with stems of fate. She speaks with a languid drawl Even when conversation is done; Her smile rings of waterfall, Shows a slowly setting sun. Graceful skirts clutched ...