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“None of them can “Handy, wait!” Gracie
do my job,” Gracie called. Before she could
snapped back before make any decisions, she
glancing up at him. She was off, chasing after him.
could see his shoulders She couldn’t let him leave
drop in defeat, and she without her! Spotting his
sighed, feeling guilty for pale silhouette among
ruining his ambition. “You the tall grass, she raced
know I want to do towards him and
it...right? I want to go out grabbed his shredded
and see the world with sleeves. “You’re right,” she
you, but...I just can’t. I gasped for air. “Handy, I
just…” want to go with you. I
Handy’s dull eyes want to see the world!”
glinted in the moonlight,
and he stared down at Handy looked shocked.
the sand. “I know.” “You do?”
Gracie paused, “Yes! Yes, I do, okay?”
watching him as he Gracie said. “I’ve been
disdainfully glided back stupid and blind, and I’m
up the beach and into sorry. I don’t want to see A Dotted Life
the brush on the way the world, I need to!” She Flannery Hipp,
back home. Guilt and gazed up at him Class of 2026
frustration melted desperately. “Will you
together inside of her, please go with me? I
and she scowled. She was don’t…I don’t think I can
right, wasn’t she? do it on my own.”
Bonaventure needed her A smile unfolded on
to restore order and Handy’s face. “Of course
peace among the spirits I’ll go with you,” he said
of Savannah. If she left, with a laugh. “You don’t
who knows what would think I hold grudges, do
happen? There could be ya?” He crouched down
an all-out war between so he was at the same
ghosts, if they weren’t face level with her, and
careful. Gracie was a Gracie could see his big
guiding force; she green eyes gleam with
steered them along. She exhilaration. “I’ll take you
was right about this. She with me, Gracie Watson. I’ll
was always right. take you with me and
No, a small voice in show you everything this
her mind told her. No, great blue marble has to
you’re wrong. You’re offer!”
wrong this time! Nature vs. Man”s Creation
Emma Gabara,
Class of 2026
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