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Submitted to Contest #105
Emily I focus on the gentle swish of the page turning instead of their voices. I can hear the edge in her voice but I’m not paying attention to what they’re saying. I’ve gotten good at tuning them out. But all of a sudden Tessa starts screaming and she smashes a glass against the counter and she’s clutching her hand to her chest getting blood all over her bright yellow shirt and all I can think is, “That’s gonna leave a stain.” I take her upstairs to get Band-Aids and tell her to run her hand under the tap to clean the wound. I kno...
Submitted to Contest #86
She liked the spring flowers the most – tulips, daffodils, bluebells. She didn’t find those too often. There were an abundance of roses and lilies, typical flowers for the dead. As she walked amongst the rows of gravestones, she wondered why more people didn’t bring wildflowers for their loved ones, or even plant them on top of the bodies. She had mixed feelings about the artificial flowers that some people left. On one hand, they could never die. But to Amina it seemed like a taunt for the dead: here is something that will never die, unlike...
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