Kavya Janani U

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“Playing With Destiny” by Kavya Janani U

Submitted to Contest #282

Content warning: Injury, trauma, mental health strugglesStaring at my freshly bandaged fingers, I wished for only one thing. To go back in time and prevent the accident. Okay, maybe I wished for more too. To not sacrifice a bit of my flesh to a crazy metal as if it had a prophecy to fulfil. To not witness blood gushing like it had a mind of its own. To not holler, scream, and wail as if a whole finger had been amputated. To not think about everything I couldn’t do on my own, starting the next day. To not hear the echoes of my screams ricoche...

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A speck in the universe mommying, reading, writing poems-stories-songs, singing, making playlists, and working 9-5.