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Submitted to Contest #275
Content Warning: Strong Language, Allusions to Sex Women have called me many names, much of them said with no fondness. The long list runs through my mind, different voices echoing in a raucous, enraged chorus. Asshole. Bum. Manwhore. Scum. Cheater. Jerk. Along with the frenzied, angered chanting, come flashes of women’s faces. They’re all beautiful faces marred with hideous emotion. Some, eyebrows scrunched and teeth barred like wild animals, wave frantically or jab fingers into my chest. Appealing faces contorted with fury. On some of them...
Submitted to Contest #274
TW: Violence, Mental Health I've never been one to be homesick. I seem to have an odd apprehension about being home, actually. I haven’t been home in years and, if it hadn’t been for a few cataclysmic life events, I’m sure that streak would have been continued. It's not that home was ever a dreadful place, one that you would despise or fear returning to for any particular or horrible reason. In fact, home could be considered quite normal, if not a little drab and mundane. My parents were caring, if a little detached from things of modern in...
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