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Category: 2016 5th Anniversary Contest

The Scar of Her Mind

August 25, 2016 by Hannah Scheuter 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

The dark face of moons

August 25, 2016 by SARAH CLACK 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

What Good Are Scars?

August 25, 2016 by Konnie Hall 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

For She Was Lost

August 25, 2016 by Naomi Quezada 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

Three

August 25, 2016 by Kimberly Russell 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

Miss Sting Ray

August 25, 2016 by Wicky Poarch 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

Can we stay?

August 25, 2016 by Chel-Mari Spies 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

Scars Are Here to Stay

August 25, 2016 by Rana Roshdy 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

Do you have any scars?

August 25, 2016 by Coleen Holley 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

From a Child’s Perspective

August 25, 2016 by Susan Carpenter 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

TK6

August 25, 2016 by Amber Smith 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

Human Trials

August 25, 2016 by Jason Anderson 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

Matching Scars

August 25, 2016 by Liora Sophie 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

Invisible Scars

August 25, 2016 by Alisa McNulty 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

My Heart and Soul

August 25, 2016 by Melissa (Missy) De Graff 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

Beyond Comprehension

August 25, 2016 by C. McKane 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

Promise and Pain

August 25, 2016 by Mira Johnson 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

Mine

August 25, 2016 by Chris LaRoche 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

SCARs

August 25, 2016 by Renette Steele 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

Dancing Trees

August 25, 2016 by Esther St. Juste Bondi 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

The Dead Light

August 25, 2016 by Céline Poulin-Lape 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

The Metamorphosis of a Good Madman

August 25, 2016 by Alejandro Bastidas 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

Spare the Rod

August 25, 2016 by Marion Hermannsen 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

Autumn of 1940

August 25, 2016 by Donna McGuinness 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 1 Comment

I’m Sorry

August 25, 2016 by Amanda Spain 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

A Happy Duet

August 25, 2016 by Wanda Kiernan 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

The Accidental Charm

August 25, 2016 by Jeanne Lemire 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

In Secrets and in Lies

August 25, 2016 by Betty Prophète 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

A Daughter’s Heart

August 25, 2016 by Elizabeth Wafler 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

The Deep Freeze

August 25, 2016 by Amber D. Meyer 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

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