What is a short story?278Please respect copyright.PENANAFNZ2ymEx6e
What am i meant to be doing278Please respect copyright.PENANA4SbZ3WBjQ0
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It's November, I've procrastinated and now I'm a day overdue.278Please respect copyright.PENANAQrkXv0ENKM
I get stressed and stressed.278Please respect copyright.PENANAK9Ik5kc7Hy
But in reality this is all my fault.278Please respect copyright.PENANAgQMHbMCLDl
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Is this reality?278Please respect copyright.PENANApEI3dHDHPB
How do I know if this is real? My friends say I should think about this, I'm not mentally stable.278Please respect copyright.PENANAreI1o2IUfq
When am I ever?278Please respect copyright.PENANARKH519Thvs
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So I write and I write.278Please respect copyright.PENANAqe6gY4h5vd
I re-read it. I hate it.278Please respect copyright.PENANA1E6JkZEJZa
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“FUCK”278Please respect copyright.PENANAKJhu6laoAi
I'll yell out as I realize nothing is good. Nothing is good enough.278Please respect copyright.PENANAxQnapGtZM7
Nothing I think or do or write is okay.278Please respect copyright.PENANAaz2AeB6IhP
It all sucks.278Please respect copyright.PENANALuqDfnIYnL
I suck.278Please respect copyright.PENANAFRXldqUN66
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I delete and restart.278Please respect copyright.PENANAwsebrRllR1
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I'm sitting in my bed, my fingers, they slave away.278Please respect copyright.PENANAyutJZWN9dz
It's the same cycle, I reread and see how trash I am at writing.278Please respect copyright.PENANAWExMhljqZz
Is this even worth my grade?278Please respect copyright.PENANASbcqOsQJbg
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What if it brings it down, what if the teacher judges me.278Please respect copyright.PENANACfaOmFtms1
What am I to do?278Please respect copyright.PENANAVbqEODoB4z
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The teen lays out and classes their laptop.278Please respect copyright.PENANAoz7WOIo9E9
The thought of stories going through their mind all ending at the same and only conclusion.278Please respect copyright.PENANA1vURu4nhrf
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“Nothing I do is good. Nothing I will ever do in my life is good enough.”278Please respect copyright.PENANAeYUFOy9PAn
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words only echo in their room as they speak in a low mumble to themselves.278Please respect copyright.PENANAebVCy7z4BH
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The next day they'll sit in class, their hands clasped on the strands of their hands. They pull and squeeze until their eyes tear278Please respect copyright.PENANAUKJthl7jn0
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“I'm useless” they say in thought “i can't do shit right. I'm stressed. No, maybe I'm just lazy. Do i call this lazyness”278Please respect copyright.PENANAUXUxCH4Bx8
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they’ll get lost in though until the bell rings snapping them out of whatever trance of thought they was in278Please respect copyright.PENANASaVOUBK1eQ
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“Fuck all my shit is scattered” 278Please respect copyright.PENANAwOPhjBzdMV
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they'll mumble to themselves as they rush to put their stuff away278Please respect copyright.PENANAreeEm9Qq6L
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Afterschool is no better. They sit again. Staring. Staring at their computer screen.278Please respect copyright.PENANA3LIe3UYUaN
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“nothing…” 278Please respect copyright.PENANAC12Bhb9l0k
despite their mind racing with any and everything they have no idea, no story… no will278Please respect copyright.PENANAUWzANvDfcV
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“Im stressed, but yet again it is my own fault. I'll do it later. But will I really? I'll just ruin it. I always ruin it, i ruin everything’278Please respect copyright.PENANAxzj54z2H2e
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My heart is pounding and my breathing heaves 278Please respect copyright.PENANA8uGFejJNhm
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“Everything i ruin everything im just such a big fuck up”278Please respect copyright.PENANA0EGrqrdax4
My hands pull at my hair then wipe the tears from my eyes.278Please respect copyright.PENANAZrNKNdGiIy
What am I to do?278Please respect copyright.PENANAOGjLzfkZmV
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Does any of this matter, is life real. Am I real? What if I'm not? What if-278Please respect copyright.PENANAOACk7U94Tj
“Mom…”278Please respect copyright.PENANA1ovcjekAii
I call out, my voice no more than a squeaky pop.278Please respect copyright.PENANALkoTbfcoGv
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“Oh what’s the use… she doesn't like me. She hates me. Why am I calling out for someone who doesn't even want me around.”278Please respect copyright.PENANADZEqnOIG5A
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they'll call out, they'll sob. It's natural to want comfort from the one who raised you, who you think, who you are TOLD is meant to love you.278Please respect copyright.PENANAXY6CwVR36P
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I look back over at my laptop screen.278Please respect copyright.PENANA4vKVm1QQz8
Is it worth it.278Please respect copyright.PENANATgcPvQiYL8
Should i try.278Please respect copyright.PENANAaP4WXfu4ED
I sigh as i adjust my laptop.278Please respect copyright.PENANAZ4ciLv1A19
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Ill brainstorm and write what comes to mind..278Please respect copyright.PENANABib3h9Mvi0
Ill write and wont revise. i ll just go with it. It cant get no worse. 278Please respect copyright.PENANA5JDBzmAuM2
Ill get it. Ill write. 278Please respect copyright.PENANAW6Zef1Hf2Q
My keys click and clack as i type.278Please respect copyright.PENANA522WaEIHxv
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That night, they'll stress and dump whatever though comes to mind. Tears will stream and run as they fight the urges to stop and give up, stop and deleted their progress. “What is a story” ;its how they start. How they'll end. They try their best. Fingers clicking, clacking, hovering.278Please respect copyright.PENANA9LCCsyUE4N
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At the end of the night, the end of the story, my fingers they hover. Do i actually want to submit this… 278Please respect copyright.PENANAfDZQsUfui8
It sucks.278Please respect copyright.PENANAugamqM2Xu6
Its about a teen, much like myself…278Please respect copyright.PENANAmWxqGee3KL
Maybe they are me?278Please respect copyright.PENANARNzki7Bl3e
Will the teacher even understand my style, the way i write… Understand this is a story,not reality?278Please respect copyright.PENANAvQyFzIolTJ
278Please respect copyright.PENANAsoKMI4g5WD
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