By Lela Smith – Originally published in The Adirondack Trust’s Festival of Young Artists Literary Gallery It’ll be at least another 30 minutes before Conner comes to get me. An hour if Mom does. What can I do for an hour? It’s not like the guidance office has a tv… Sure are a lot of…
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By Lela Smith – Originally published in Queensbury High School’s Seeing Blue, 2022 “There’s something beautiful about this place in the spring.” She tilts her head up to the clouds and says a little thanks to the sun and the sky for these endless afternoons. This, the time in between two extremes, is her favorite…
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By Lela Smith – Originally published in Queensbury High School’s Seeing Blue, 2020. Dad, can you pick me up? Everyone’s loud, but altogether it’s too quiet. Everything’s blending together, but the boy right next to me is talking right in my ear, right to my brain, drilling a whole in my head painfully slowly. It…
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