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August 2022 Fiction Contest: The Girl in the Twilight MAG

August 17, 2022
By allisonxu GOLD, Rockville, Maryland
allisonxu GOLD, Rockville, Maryland
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The sun dips lower, horizon aflame. At the corner of the street, a girl sits in front of an old upright piano, her gaunt fingers stretched across stony keys. Her figure blurs, almost invisible. Music floats out and melts into the bustling throng, like a tiny rock swallowed by the ocean.

Somewhere close, a young boy slips free of his mother’s grasp, running toward the source of the melody. He doesn’t understand music, but he hears emotion. His mother joins him. More people slow down, turning to the piano.

And for the first time, people notice the girl in the twilight.


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Afra ELITE said...
on Aug. 19 2022 at 9:51 am
Afra ELITE, Kandy, Other
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Favorite Quote:
"A writer must never be short of ideas."<br /> -Gabriel Agreste- (Fictional character- Miraculous)

Love your choice of words!!! Keep writing!!!

on Aug. 18 2022 at 8:28 pm
nooneatall BRONZE, --, California
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Favorite Quote:
"Hats off to the past, coats off to the future."<br /> - American Proverb<br /> "Why do you keep hiding behind your mask,<br /> When even the scars formed by your mistakes <br /> are you own constellations?"

You go, girl-in-the-twilight!
Seriously though, this was beautiful.