Jess Kent

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“Ghosts Like Us” by Jess Kent

Submitted to Contest #275

She dropped the letter and watched in dismay as the blood-red words swirled towards the ground. Dear God. She thought paralyzed in fear, He found me. Shaking, she reached one hand out for the back of her friend’s chair and held her other one to her chest, as if she could keep her heart from leaping from her body. It’s been seventeen years since she heard from him. Seventeen years of paranoid peace and illusory safety. “Adrianne?” Sharon walked into the kitchen with a curious frown on her weathered face. “Are you ok, honey? You look like you’...

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