Lucy Aklin

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“Trying to Forget” by Lucy Aklin

Submitted to Contest #230

(Sensitive Content: Involves mention of blood, school shooting/violence, mention of death/dying, detailed panic attacks, and mental health issues.)“What do you feel when you start thinking like that?”  The therapist asked, giving me a pointed glance and tapping her pen on her desk. I hate that sound. A long silence creeped between us. I tried to ignore the words she’d spoken, the tapping of the cheap ballpoint pen against the dark wood. I looked at the two sad, bland, colorless pillows on my left side, sitting with me on the formal gray...

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