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Submitted to Contest #313
The wrappers were still warm between them, sitting like a peace treaty on the dashboard. Aaron unwrapped his sandwich with the kind of slow, deliberate care usually reserved for diffusing a bomb.She loved that about him. How unaware he was to everything around him when he was focused. Until she thought about how unaware he was of her feeling for him.Or was he ? Questions.Jasmine rolled her eyes. “You always eat like it’s your last meal.”Aaron didn’t look up. “Might be, the way you drive. One swerve away from headlines.”“I didn’t hear you com...
CW: Sexual content The taste hit first—bitter kola nut crushed between the back teeth. Dry, tannic, grounding. Tashnia sat at the edge of the couch with the shell tucked in her cheek, the earthy flavor sharp on her tongue as she listened to the slow sizzle of incense coiling from the abalone shell on the windowsill. Frankincense, heavy and sacred, filled the one-bedroom like a hush after prayer.This was how her grandmother in Bangladesh used to cleanse a house when her spirits grew restless. Usually before covering herself in all black cloth...
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