'Routine'
Miss Eleanora moves quietly around the room. "Okay, now plié. Keep your back straight. Watch your turnout. Arms above the head, and straighten," she instructs.
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Miss Eleanora moves quietly around the room. "Okay, now plié. Keep your back straight. Watch your turnout. Arms above the head, and straighten," she instructs.
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They sang the praises of the morn, How light shines and crosses the fields, Blanketing it with the golden glow, And wielding the power of hope it yields.
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"Because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." ― Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit
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The orphanage was old, far older than the name of the street it stood on. The years had seen countless children within its walls. Some were adopted by loving…
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A December story inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Match Girl,” following a young ice seller seeking escape, comfort, and freedom.
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Decembers of merry have flown And have left me with but a clone Of something that I once knew But now something that paints me blue.
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The Diamond Jubilee celebration honoured generations of Filipino writers, judges, and visionaries who have shaped the country’s literary heritage.
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Filipino author and advocate Dean Francis Alfar believes it’s time the country caught up to the imaginative worlds its writers have long been envisioning.
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I am afraid that I cannot write A happy story⸺imbued with light. For even when I write about the stars, My words find themselves within the scars Of rivers of…
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This creative nonfiction essay was a requirement for my Editing Class as a Literature student at De La Salle University. Contains sensitive themes. Reader…
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Every year, the New York Public Library undertakes a massive, lovingly intense project: reading thousands of titles across every genre imaginable to determine…
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Should tonight be my last night, I want to leave you this: Know there's nothing else You could've done. There are no more clues You might have missed.
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As far as I’m concerned, the first man and woman aren’t named Adam and Eve. No — they go by Mother and Father.
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Isang koleksyon ng limang tula na tumatalakay sa pananampalataya, kaligtasan, at pagsumpa.
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I've read a lot of books ever since I was old enough to know how, and like Chimamanda Adichie, I noticed that the stories I've read were about foreign…
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A woman stands alone at the bus stop. Back slightly crooked, but chin still up high. Strands of silver weave through her dark hair, and her skin catches…
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How does one become significant? How does one transform through creation, connection, and the courage to exist fully⸺even when the world seems too vast, and…
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