Tag: bullying
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LOCAL HERO
‘Always was a wayward child, that one.’ ‘This is a little something more than wayward.’ ‘I remember him growing up around here. Always in trouble, stealing sweets, ringing doorbells.’ ‘I’m not sure that childhood pranks would lead to this.’ ‘You gotta stop ’em when their young. Learn ’em early to respect people.’ ‘I wonder how…
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FIRST DAY BACK
Lily knelt down and started picking up the books, trying to block out the laughs and stares. She’d got it all wrong. Sneakers when everyone else had shoes. Short summer dress when everyone else wore leggings and tights. New plain backpack and all the cool girls had satchels. Hair plaited when the season’s look was…
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MIRROR, MIRROR
Can you hold up a mirror to yourself and say that you are entirely innocent? That you are not in some way to blame? That was the thought that had brought Dominic out onto the street. He hadn’t been the one shouting, taunting, calling her the names: ‘Fatty’, ‘Chunk’, ‘Porky.’ He hadn’t laughed while watching…
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SCARRED
For years they had called him a freak because he looked different. No friends, no relationships, cast aside by an uncaring society. His mother’s love was the only one he’d known, caring for him, nurturing him, protecting him, until she was gone too soon. Then loneliness in an unforgiving world. He longed to join in…
Iain Kelly 