Hannah Baker

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“An Absence of Light ” by Hannah Baker

Submitted to Contest #258

Trigger warning: death For my grandmother’s birthday, I gifted her a Polaroid photo of a horseshoe crab. It had washed up on the beach earlier that day, dead but intact, its sepia shell starting to cement itself under the wet sand. I tacked the photo up on her wall, next to her framed newspaper clipping of a warehouse fire.  “Didn’t think to bring me the real thing?” She asked, setting down her magnifying glass on top of today’s obituaries.  “You don’t want the smell, trust me.” I laughed. “Plus, it’s the best photo from this thin...

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