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    It was October and 101* outside in the sun. The temperature difference in the shade compared to the sunshine was considerably noticeable, all you had to do was stick a hand out of either one and feel and instant 20* change. At least it’s dry heat, she thought to herself. Unlike her home state of Massachusetts, which was intolerably humid, Arizona had a dry heat that although the sweat simply evaporated off your body, was at least bearable.    She remembered ...

    Their conversation was getting deep. She could tell that he was different. He was actually an intellectual person. She could hold a serious conversation with him and actually be challenged by him and his ideas, causing her to think about things differently.     “You know what that saying is… ‘wish in one hand, shit in the other. See which one fills up first.’ Wishes are nice to look at but they suck. Two in one hand is better than on...

    Specialist Allen, the MOS-T in her platoon, had it right. “What do you need civilian friends for? They don’t know what we go through here, they don’t understand what it’s like.” The more she thought about it, the more she realized how true his words were. Every phone call home she made to her best friend Ali, it was the same thing. Some cute boy she met at a party, how she wanted a new pair of shoes, the new cell phone she bought for $500, or h...

It was past Lexi’s bedtime but she couldn’t get to sleep. She was afraid of the dark and her night-light had burnt out. Now the room was dark and scary. The trees outside made spooky shadows on her wall and the wind made the branches scratch at her window. She thought she could see monsters all around her. “Mommy!” Lexi yelled and jumped out of bed. She ran into Mommy’s room but she wasn’t sleeping. She ran into the living room but she wasn’t watching TV. She ran into the kitchen but Mommy w...

Little Jenna Henna looked out her bedroom window. The leaves on the giant oak tree were changing colors and falling off. “Why” she wondered, and went outside to see. She sat in front of the tree and thought hard. “Why are the leaves changing colors and falling off the tree?”… A little bird above her told her why. “The tree has a cold,” she chirped and flew away. Jenna went in the house. When she came back, she had all the things that her mommy gave her when she was sick. She poured a bowl of ...