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SARA NIESEN: Escape

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We’re alone, for now.

Her dusty mane dances, muscles ripple in her neck, but her saddle remains unmoved.

Unleash the buckles! Cut the rope! every part of me screams.

My right boot scrapes against the gritty trail, refusing to lift.

Her rider returns, mounts.

Feeling the weight, I slump away.

A storyteller at heart, Sara fans the writing flames in young people as a BAWP Teacher Consultant at UC Berkeley. As founder of MindMyEducation.com she helps students take charge of their education, so they can write the stories of their lives instead of simply playing the roles laid out for them.

JON NIXON: Today’s Regrets

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He looked at me, eyes rain-readied, heavy and distant.

“Tomorrow,” he whispered quietly.

“All these years, I’ve been telling myself ‘tomorrow’.

“But then there’s another tomorrow. Followed by another.

“And then a tomorrow follows that.”

He blinked and the rain began. Slow and silent.

‘Until there’s no tomorrow. It’s over.”

Jon is from the North West of England and an aspiring writer, working in Local Government but with a background in Newspaper Journalism.