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Lily (formerly RG Mara) Del

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A Dying Rose for the Devil

Submitted to Contest #161

“Life is full of shit you don’t want to do, Rosie.” This was my mother’s central credo and self-imposed prison sentence. It was true, of course, but the problem was she made it seem like that was all life could ever be. One dutiful, shitty thing after another with no room for pleasure or creativity. Joy or celebration. Love. To her, life was a cycle of rage and regret, of broken mirror bad luck and big, red devils waiting up ahead at every crossroads. To me, too. For a long, long time. The first day she said she wanted to die was fil...

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