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Submitted to Contest #326
We were born two, but we only ever lived one life.We learned young how to pass the body back and forth — like trading a coat in a doorway. One of us wears it for the day; the other watches from behind the glass, a warm, dark pane where breath fogs but never marks. Sometimes we watch, sometimes we don't. The silence can be easier than seeing. At night, we hand over: memories, notes, the ache in the left ankle, the fact that the door sticks if you don't lift and pull. She can see what I see, but not what it feels like from the inside — not the...
Submitted to Contest #325
(Recovered statement from the case files of Saint Dymphna Asylum, 1936)They say I am unwell.They whisper that grief has eaten my mind, that memory has spoiled and fermented in me. But they are wrong. I remember too much to be mad. The mad forget; I remember everything.The doctors think I’m crazy, but what do doctors know of appetite? Fools. They do not understand that hunger is not in the stomach – it is in the soul. Mine has been starving for years.So you understand – I had no choice.It began with the challenge: Recreate the flavor of a lon...
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