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Ashlee E. B.

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The Trees

Submitted to Contest #288

Content warning for mental illness and allusions to domestic violence.. The trees were harassing my mother again.  I edged toward her room when I heard her cry out. “What’s wrong, momma?”  Rain pattered in through the open window and swirled her chestnut-brown hair with chilly gusts of wind. Hovering in the doorway, I shivered in my favorite nightgown, the one gramma made for me. My fingers clutched the pastel-colored butterflies she embroidered on it, each one fashioned from her light and warmth. Tears poured down momma’s fac...

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