https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Mikhailadd/I am a new writer experimenting with different length short stories. Feedback is welcome and will be taken seriously. Thanks so much for reading!hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Mikhailadd/604150The day after my eighth birthday was picture day at school, and on no other day of the year was it so important to me to be told I looked pretty. I had asked my mom to put my red-gold hair into the two thick ponytails the night before, after presents had been enjoyed and forgotten and paper and...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Mikhailadd/603218It had been January when my dad told me about the tickets to Australia he and my mom had found on the cheap. "I wanna go," I'd said. He had terminal cancer and I wanted to spend some time with him before he died. In March, he began to fade. I tried not to notice. Australia, wait until Australia....