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Sasha Caplan
Emerald L.A.

Ed. Isaac Ylitalo
SLEEP STORY I

I am in my America home.
Lual is there with Mama and Father,

and my aunt is cooking food on the stove.

Ganwar is talking to Lual in a strange different language.

I ask my mother what Ganwar and Lual are saying,
she looks at me and in her

eyes I see the sunlight glistening.
But then I see a giant fire storming from the

pupil of her eyes.

The magical lights go out

and then the bad men come
and they take out their guns

and start saying words

that ring in my ears
until all I hear is a faint scream of Father and Lual.

I see Mama reach out to me,

but all I can do is stand there

and watch the bad men kill and hate for a reason
I will never know.

When the magic lights turn on again,

I see Lou walk into the house
and say,

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