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Holden commented on the post, pile 20 hours, 33 minutes ago
Piles sat on his desk. Piles of textbooks, bigger textbooks on little ones, perched precariously on slippery book covers. His computer was buried under a binder and a physics and English notebook and his agenda […]
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Holden commented on the post, base 1 day, 21 hours ago
It was a way of getting through the day. He always found himself running to classes, because he was reluctant to set his alarm clock five minutes earlier. He ran to lecture hall, plonking earphones in his ears and […]
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Holden commented on the post, backspace 2 days, 20 hours ago
Jeremy couldn’t think of anything to write on oneword, he started with a random name, “Sam,” and then didn’t like it so pressed the backspace button. But his computer interpreted it as going back to the previous […]
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Holden commented on the post, engine 4 days, 22 hours ago
When their car wouldn’t start up, Sara called her neighbor’s to-be college boy, Larry, to take a look.
“Help out Larry,” she told her son Mike, but she really wanted Mike to talk to people more, instead of […] -
Holden commented on the post, disregard 1 week ago
Chloe couldn’t stand being disregarded. She got into her cousin Howard’s face, frothed her mouth with bubblegum spit, and dropped crayons on the math book he was reading. She couldn’t lift the book so pushed it to […]
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Holden commented on the post, lending 1 week ago
In high school I used to lend pencils all the time. A lot of my pencils went missing that way. I instituted a sign-out sheet in my agenda book, and for fun, wrote up a “pencil-lending constitution.” Saying I could […]
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Holden commented on the post, primitive 1 week, 2 days ago
“Why’s it called ‘primitive’ roots?” Doug asked.
Alice remembered not to grumble at his questions. “Because, they’re the elements that generate the whole group,” she said, “while the others only generate part of […] -
Holden commented on the post, outgoing 1 week, 3 days ago
Sometimes I wish I were more outgoing. But sometimes I fear I’d lose something by being outgoing. Like if I were hanging on the words other people say, and thinking of the right thing to say next, I’d think less […]
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Holden commented on the post, shorthand 1 week, 4 days ago
Harold felt his notes lacked character. The letters wobbled to the left and the right and drifted off when his head nodded. It was a toin coss whether his next “g” would curl, or not curl. He thought, maybe he […]
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Holden commented on the post, tasting 1 week, 5 days ago
How to put the sense of taste in? James didn’t like his writing professor at all. You have to put all five senses in your description, he said. And from the first assignment, James already knew Mr. Smith would […]
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Holden commented on the post, instrumental 1 week, 6 days ago
“Always let you’re friends know they’re valued,” Mike’e Econ teacher said during homeroom. It was like the business advice he dropped during lecture, as casually as he dropped chalk (which was often), “if you run […]
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Holden commented on the post, nominated 2 weeks ago
Jake didn’t like the emails that told him he was nominated for so-and-so scholarship. He couldn’t help thinking, that he hadn’t done enough, that all he could write in his personal statements was vague dreams […]
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Holden commented on the post, upright 2 weeks, 1 day ago
No one told Danny to sit upright in his classes anymore. Indeed, the boy who sat next to him near the back of the lecture hall, who always had a cup of coffee in an “environmentally-friendly recycled cup” with the […]
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Holden commented on the post, sliver 3 weeks ago
The sliver of daylight coming through the space between the curtains and the wall always annoyed him. It entered his on-the-verge-of-consciousness brain in the morning, and he had shallow 10-second dreams about […]
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Holden commented on the post, balloons 3 weeks, 2 days ago
Perhaps the child who abandoned the balloon to the thunderstorm wished to witness its demise, but the balloon plunged upwards. It shuddered under the jolting raindrops but the rain didn’t puncture its plastic […]
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Holden commented on the post, poster 3 weeks, 2 days ago
Elisa had a roll of laminated posters under one arm, advertising for the literary society, their book of the month, discussion meeting, free Chinese food. It was all a streamlined process: Katie churned out the […]
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Holden commented on the post, sound 4 weeks ago
I looked across the waters of the bay, framed by dirt-encrusted, immobile glaciers. They didn’t call it a bay, though, they called it a “sound” it in the national park map. I wondered why, the only sound I could […]
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Holden commented on the post, swan 1 month ago
She cruised on the river, alone, head arched, like one half of a heart in the nature photographs that appeared on Valentine’s day – not that she would know anything about an artificial human symbol for love. He […]
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Holden commented on the post, branches 1 month, 1 week ago
At first all the math majors took the same classes together: real analysis, linear algebra. But then they started branching off, into number theory or topology or combinatorics or applied math, and here he was, […]
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Holden commented on the post, ruby 1 month, 1 week ago
Ruby liked to wear red, like her namesake. Unlike her namesake, though, she danced erratically down the sidewalk like a colored leaf blown by the autumn wind. She fluttered past her friends’ hellos, though she […]
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