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Joshua Messina

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From Gray to Blue Jay

Submitted to Contest #292

I died once. It felt like I was gone forever—except I wasn't. The darkness shifted around my gaze and then came back. At first, I thought it was still there like a cold likes to linger. Yeah, no, it was gone . . . except it wasn't. Gray. That is all I know. All I see. All I feel. After the accident, that is all that has been going in. And what has been coming out is anger, confusion, resentment. One thought goes in, What if I hadn't even left the house that day? And out comes, I can't change it . . . I want to, but I can't. Sometimes the ima...

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