Emily Hickey

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“Facing Myself” by Emily Hickey

Submitted to Contest #284

My mother looks at me like I have two heads. But considering there are two of me standing in the room right now, I suppose that’s technically true.  “Honey?” Mom says, pursing her lips and putting a shaking hand, heavy with silver rings, to her chest. Her face flicks over me, then the mirror image beside me, then me again.  “I… um, darling? June?”  I look over at the Other June, who informed me upon our first meeting that she prefers her (my? our?) full name,  Juniper. I always thought that name was a little too flower-po...

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Writer & artist navigating life as a twenty-something in the Midwest and trying to craft stories that'd make my twelve-year-old self proud.