J. E. Nelson

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“Hollow Shell” by J. E. Nelson

Submitted to Contest #113

Can you hear me? His words became a tattered piece of paper, snatched by the wind and sent fluttering off into the darkness. He sat hunched in the snow, his gaze not meeting mine but instead staring just past me. Hazy, unfocused. “I hear you,” I whispered. His gaze shifted, still not quite finding mine, but alert. I could see the closest trees through his right ear and shoulder. The finger that worried at his jeans looked thinned, like a spool of thread unraveled. A stiff breeze blew, and a few flecks of white flew from the back of h...

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