When I was a Kid
Title: When I was a Kid
Category: /Literature/Creative Writing
Details: Words: 1620 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
When I was a Kid
Category: /Literature/Creative Writing
Details: Words: 1620 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
When I was a kid we left the dirty streets of Brooklyn, New York for the quieter suburban streets of Connecticut. We moved into a large house in Norwalk, Connecticut. Norwalk is the sort of town that dreams of being a big city but will always be just another small port on the Connecticut coastline. Like out of some horror story, the south side of town offers plenty of frightening images: ghettos, drug dealers, prostitutes, …showed first 75 words of 1620 total…
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When I finally became old enough to move away, I spent some of my moving day at that fishing spot. As the sun beamed brightly across the sky, the birds sang and chirped. In some indirect manner, I knew everything was different now, a new cycle of life beginning. And, as I sat fishing, thoughts of a better life danced in my mind. I sat, rarely catching fish, but surely fishing.