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Submitted to Contest #307
Massachusetts, 1986I saw her at the first Sunday mass of the fall semester. Her back to me in our regulation pinafores and two long braids like black twine. The stained-glass window straight ahead, a hundred little colours bleeding into one.We were seated next to each other in calculus class because our surnames sat together alphabetically and she introduced herself, smiling. It was the roots of what I knew would be the friendship of my lifetime.She was new to school and everyone liked her immediately. She had a way of pulling you in like th...
Submitted to Contest #298
6.25amIt’s six twenty-five, the default iPhone alarm tells me, and I wake up not feeling groggy for the first time in five years. I feel alert, surge upwards and don’t hit snooze, also for the first time in five years. This morning is different because this is the day my life will change. I go through the usual motions: get in a cold shower, turn my head up towards the stream like a lizard bathes in sunlight. Stay in this position for three minutes, my skin becoming goose-pimpled and red, the pain fading to nothing. Brush teeth, put on the m...
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