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Submitted to Contest #314
The mattress was thin, just enough to lift me from my grandmother’s living room floor, but it was mine for the night. My cousins were sprawled nearby, shuffling through their card collection, their voices low and competitive. The heat clung to everything — to the cotton of my blue pyjamas, to my damp skin, to the air itself, thick and unmoving like syrup. The fan spun lazily above, doing little more than stirring the warm stillness. My thighs still stung from chafing after the day’s long walk, and the sweat on my back soaked through the fabr...
Submitted to Contest #272
The sandwiches her mother packed for her would rot in her lunch box, uneaten. She refused to eat them. The sandwich would sit in her lunch box, growing soggy as the hours passed, suffocated by the plastic bag it came in. The school introduced a ban stating that kids were forbidden to throw away their lunches. It was supposed to teach them the value of food, to stop waste. But it only made things harder for her. Day after day, she edged closer and closer to the bin, making sure no one saw her. Wrapping the sandwich in tissue paper, she disgui...
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