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  A Stranger

  

  By pandafyre, Vail, AZ

  My hands hung casually from my jeans pockets as I debated toppling an empire. A small empire, sure—an empire of gaudy stockings and fat-faced Santas—an empire of plastic lights—but an empire, and every empire means something to somebody. Even plastic ones. Glittery cloth swathed the fountai...
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  Second Chance

  

  By pandafyre, Vail, AZ

  It’s true, what they say about souls. Like lights, they are, vibrant and gossamer, clutched tight to the chest like a raggedy doll named Sally or Bobo because that’s what innocence is; a soul. My eyes flutter open and shut and I can hear my heart thump thumping away in my chest, right there n...
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  Sparrow

  

  By pandafyre, Vail, AZ

  Every morning I look out at the streets but I don’t watch the cars. I watch the people – the fat man who sells hot dogs on the corner, the newspaper lady wearing the neon orange vest. Sometimes a kid rides by on a bicycle. Other times, the elderly woman who lives one floor down will put a leash ...