Creative Writing: My Summer Off
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Memory can be so fickle. Like some great book that is slowly loosing
its pages, you begin with an entire novel full of details and descriptions and,
if you're not careful, you end up with nothing more than the cover and the brief
synopsis on the back page. My novel on the subject of the end of s ....
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.... summer school right up to the moment I was issued the dictum “go to school or
get a job”, at which point I became the world's greatest advocate of off-season
learning. Besides, I was only fifteen and the workplace just wasn't ready for
me. So I thumbed through the course book, singing a chorus of no's until I
arrived on the Debate and Public Speaking page. There resided a large
photograph of a boy confidently standing behind an ornate podium, clearly frozen
in the middle of some captiva ....
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Word count: 1528
Page count: 6 (approximately 250 words per page)
