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Submitted to Contest #308
Many have seen only one side of the celebration.The fun, the happiness, that dizzying crescendo.That year it began on a Saturday, two days before the dates that were marked in red on the calendar.Even on it, above the dates, was a painting of oak tree leaf wreaths and large see-through beer cups with unrealistic foam gathered at the lip.The tradition stemmed from predecessors, and everyone from this modest, small country had been brought into it while still in their cradle.The preparation had been grand.Finding a clearing not too steep, not ...
Submitted to Contest #307
The staircase down leads to the shadow show. There are numerous clocks and pictures with people with no faces on the walls, leading down.Marilyn kept looking at me, very sideways.Sometimes we sat with our legs against the walls and our heads on the floor, the shadow show was on the ceiling. I thought that was the most fun of them. But today we all sat straight and looked at the stage.One thing was for certain. No matter where and how we sat, I'd laugh until I cried. Beside me sat two students I did not recognize despite spending all of my da...
Submitted to Contest #303
Trigger Warnings: Emotional trauma, dissociation, implied abuse.I do not know my name,I only know how to haunt my father's grave.I did not used to be the Nightgirl. I did not used to have a home.There were the four walls— wood— and when I inhaled, it touched my tongue,tasting of everything sweet and bitter.The inviting woods. But then, also a house. A confinement.Home would be happiness, I imagined.Maybe I saw it in a dream.I stepped into the next room, those walls engulfed me anew. Yet, still the same.I felt it, the slow thrum under my feet...
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