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Jared Conger

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Epitaphs to Elsa

Submitted to Contest #294

September 8, 1986Elsa,It’s just me now. Just me and the waves. I don’t know why I’m writing this. Maybe I just want to believe you can still hear me.The boat is quiet without you. I keep thinking I’ll hear your footsteps in the cabin, that soft little shuffle you made when you didn’t want to wake me. But I know better. You’re not here, and I did that.I miss you. God, I miss you.You never should’ve stayed with me, Elsa. You should’ve let me rot the moment you saw what I was becoming. But you, you never ran. Not when the hunger started, not wh...

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