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Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2025
Submitted to Contest #303
This story contains references to suicide or self harm and mental health. I could’ve picked anything. Her name. Her locker number. The moment she slammed Emi into the lockers so hard it knocked the wind out of her. But I didn’t. I picked the one thing that made her decent. The thing that shaped her before she ever picked up the habit of cruelty. I took a sentence. Just one.You’re good. You’ll always be good.I don’t know why I knew it mattered. I just did. And the second I pulled it from her, like peeling something still warm from the bone...
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