Day: July 27, 2015

Hide and Seek

By Micah Tauscher

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Last year I woke up and didn’t see my brother.

He slept across the room from me, but that morning he wasn’t there.  No one knew where he’d gone.  Not Mama.  Not Papa.  Not even the maid who picked up my toys when I wasn’t looking.  A lot of people came and looked for him.  They looked around the house.  They looked in the woods outside.  I could see them through the window.  They even tried to look in the attic, but there were nails in the door.  After a while, we couldn’t find him and gave up.

I didn’t miss him.

He’d been older than me and only talked about girls.  He wasn’t any fun.

Besides, now there was no one to split dessert with.

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