I really enjoyed this story, @gaby-crb. I hope it’s okay if I make a small editorial suggestion. Since the story is in present tense, it would be best to make the first line present tense too. And you could make it a complete sentence if you take a few words from elsewhere in the story. (For example, “The noise is deafening” is two fewer words than “The noise it makes is deafening.”) With two more words you could write a stronger opening such as “I am seven years old, sitting in grandpa’s tractor.”

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