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- Author: Nicole Maggi
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- Genre: Fantasy
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The Newcomers
The town of Twin Willows was a tiny dot on a large map, a speck of
nothing in the middle of nowhere. I paused on the steps of the town hall and
surveyed the short strip of Main Street, the blood in my veins sizzling with
frustration like hot oil. A discarded newspaper blew down the potholed
street, carried off by the autumn wind to some distant place that someday—
someday—I promised myself I would get to.
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I sighed and pushed open the door. “I hate Mondays.”
Inside the overheated hall, the radiators banged in rhythm with the voices
of the people gathered there. I spotted my best friend, Jenny, in the back
row, her thumbs working furiously over the keypad of her cell phone. I
plunked into the chair next to her.
She clicked her phone off. “I hate Mondays. Why does Clemens insist on
torturing us?”
“Because he has no life and wants to ruin ours.” I unwrapped my scarf
and flung it over the chair next to me.
As an ongoing homework assignment for our government class, we were
required to attend weekly town hall meetings. As if anything ever happened
in Twin Willows. Every week these meetings were the same. Someone was
mad at someone else for an out-of-control tree limb that dangled over their
property line, and what was Mayor Lawson going to do about it? Well, I
could tell them exactly what Mayor Lawson would do about it because she
did the same thing every week. She made some wishy-washy decision that
would satisfy everyone so that everything could reset to Boring. One of
these days, the monotony of it was going to make me scream right in the
middle of the meeting.
“What’s cooking in Lidia’s kitchen tonight?” Jenny asked. Lidia was my
mother. Although I called her Mom to her face, in my head and with my
friends she was always Lidia.
“Baked ziti.” I looked at the clock. It was five past six. Great. The
meeting was running late. As if it wasn’t bad enough that I had to be here at
all. My stomach growled.
Jenny rolled her eyes back and made a drooling sound. “My mom is
making vegan, gluten-free meat loaf. When I left the house she was
crushing cashews to use in place of breadcrumbs.”
“I think I just felt Lidia shudder,” I said with a laugh. My mother was an
incredible purist when it came to food. I’d heard her mutter many times
about burning the “weirdo” cookbooks in Jenny’s house.
The door behind us opened, and a harsh wind gusted in, blowing my scarf
off the chair. I bent down to pick it up, and as I straightened Jenny grabbed
my arm. “Who are they?” she hissed.
I turned in the direction of her gaze.
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