Mikayla knew that Diana tried to listen for actual words among the riotous din that drifted over from the elementary school whenever the kids were on the playground. More than once, she’d say something like, “I know they’re having conversations, but with all of them talking at once, it just sounds like they're all yelling at the top of their lungs at the same time.” Diana liked being able to faintly hear the morning announcements, but she didn’t like young children, and their playful noises sounded like seagulls aggressively squawking for the same pizza crust. Their family home growing up had been close to the beach, and they were currently sharing an apartment in a valley that was always hot and smoggy, with a sprawling building of U-Haul storage spaces, and the school of course, replacing the ocean as their view; hearing seabird noises out here felt like a taunt. No matter how many knots even a casual glance from Mom or ...
Feel very much the same a lot of the time.
ReplyDeleteAw, sucks, huh? Your blogs look cool.
DeleteThank you, I am trying to get into blogging more regularly...
DeleteI try to do it twice a week as something to motivate me but a lot of my posts are things that nobody read the first time around so it's kind of easy just to repost (Commenting from other account). It does feel good to create something, huh?
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