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Katie Knipp

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Somethings not right.

Submitted to Contest #80

I don't know what's going on. Mama is scared, but she doesn't want to show it. But I can tell. Something isn't right about her laugh, and she's not smiling when she thinks I’m not looking. I hear her talking, at night. Always on the phone, talking in hushed tones. Sometimes, when she is getting even more nervous, her voice gets louder- almost to a shout. It scares me, when she gets like this. Because I know something is not right. And right now, something is not right.  Mama won't tell me anything, she says I’m too young to know, to...

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