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Category: 2016 5th Anniversary Contest

The Scars That Lit Your Way

August 24, 2016 by Olivia Leitner 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

Hooks

August 24, 2016 by Jordan James 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

Family Ties

August 24, 2016 by James Knox 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

I Won’t Change

August 24, 2016 by Cassandra Steller 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

Through You

August 24, 2016 by Saray Fitzhenry 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

My First Scar

August 24, 2016 by Pbo Toki 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

Laundry

August 24, 2016 by Elisabeth Swann 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

Pink

August 24, 2016 by Gary Little 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 1 Comment

Grandma’s Scar

August 24, 2016 by Phil Logan 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

Some You Can’t Heal

August 24, 2016 by Steven Reid 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

Stripper With a Dream

August 24, 2016 by Cassidy Chilcott 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

The Martyr

August 24, 2016 by Michael Conlon 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

The Scarred Stranger

August 24, 2016 by Marye Smith 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

The Handover

August 24, 2016 by Paula M. Coulter 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

Stars and Darkness

August 24, 2016 by David Nelson 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

Wheelchair Future

August 24, 2016 by Katrina Hawkins 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

The Samaritan

August 24, 2016 by Ethan McCray 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 2 Comments

Scar

August 24, 2016 by Noelle Reyes 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 4 Comments

The Final Flight

August 24, 2016 by Shawn English 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

The Space Between

August 24, 2016 by Jen Paulin 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

Forgiving the Man Next Door

August 24, 2016 by Cathy Leach 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

A Beer for a Scar

August 24, 2016 by Dennis Melancon 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

The Orphan

August 24, 2016 by Sarkis Antikajian 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

The Working Girl

August 24, 2016 by J.D. Wills 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

Red Is the Color of Anger

August 24, 2016 by Nancy Dohn 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

An Unhealed Scar

August 24, 2016 by Karen Watkins 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

Self-Confinement

August 24, 2016 by Lesley Cara 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

Lies

August 24, 2016 by Teresa (Tess) Karlinski 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

The Soul Print on the Shell of My Heart

August 24, 2016 by kawtar 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

The Forgiveness Curse

August 24, 2016 by Robert Lynn Berman 2016 5th Anniversary Contest 0 Comments

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