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Submitted to Contest #314
CW: Mentions of substance abuse and graphic violence. It is exactly four am, according to the glowing alarm clock on her side table. She is restless, and intrusive thoughts dart in and out of her mind like bullets. I can’t sleep, she thinks, sitting up and heading for the door. No point in trying.Then she sees it.She breathes deeply, in, out. Her knuckles are white from clutching the cold steel cross, the chain taut against her neck. She slowly backs into the corner of her room.She stares into its ghoulish milky eyes, its scraggly, brown hai...
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