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Jackie Silvers

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Hospital bed corners

Submitted to Contest #84

His cornflower blue eyes smiled at me as he reached for the lamp. “I love you. Good night,” he said. “Why do you always look at me?” I inquired, burrowing deeper under the duvet. “I want your face to be the last thing I see before I sleep.” He leaned into me and kiss me softly and shut the light. I had just fallen asleep when I felt the restless kicking, struggle at the foot of the full sized bed. “What? “ my voice thick with sleep. “You did it again” a final kick and then a sigh “You and those hospital corners”, he murmure...

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Unstable

Submitted to Contest #82

The flat rectangular object sat on the soiled table, its nefarious glow pulsed appearing to breathe the air in the stale room. I clutched the tattered terry cloth robe around my flabby waist, my bare feet edging across the dull hardwood floor inching me closer to the figure. The hasty scribbled script peeked out from a piece of folded crisp white paper, drawing my attention like a sail in an ocean of chaos. A single pearl of sweat roll...

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