Spoken Worlds

The Spoken Word is My World

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Friday’s Five!Mood in a word: happy!
Book you’re reading: The Memory Keeper’s Daughter. Inching along.Looking…View Post

Friday’s Five!

Mood in a word: happy!
Book you’re reading: The Memory Keeper’s Daughter. Inching along.
Looking…

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A Memory

One Eid last year, my uncle was able to help save someone’s life.

She was young, around twenty-five, and she got onto his taxi. Somewhere along the way to her desired destination, a subway station, she asked him if she could confide in him; it was…

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During storms, Facebook should just separate status updates between people who love thunder and lightening and people who just peed in their pants.

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I realized that I cannot hold conversation with today’s mortals. I haven’t kept up with the Kardashians, so we have no common ground.

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After I spoke, no one else did, not because they agreed with my statements, but because, in order to speak up, they would have to look me in the eye. I faked my bravery, jutting my chin and daring someone to contradict me. I am glad no one else could hear the blood pounding in my ear as my heart worried, Fight or flight? Fight or flight?

Majoring in English,

http://thefeministwire.com/2013/03/majoring-in-english/

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when honesty
conquers clever retorts
witty comebacks
and lies on replay

I will take my place
in society
and I might consider
following its ways

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