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Elenore, 13, is home schooled and has written this piece of flash fiction (a very short story).

“She found the journal on the train. Looping handwriting in a rich, purple ink danced over yellow-hued pages, telling tales of a love lost to greed, of delusions of happiness, of what happens to a person when one truly doesn’t care about other people’s opinions. The stories enchanted her imagination; as the people in the seats behind her twiddled their thumbs, she was whisked off to balls, faced dragons, and solved mystery after mystery; thrilled by the places she could go without going anywhere at all. A cloying, selfish part of her mind demanded that she steal it for herself, that she keep it as a stunning secret, hidden away from the world. She forced herself to stand up. With a heavy heart, a mind full of magnificent stories, and…

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The Week Junior (UK) (Digital) - 1 Issue, 478

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