M. B. Portnoy

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“See” by M. B. Portnoy

Submitted to Contest #116

“You see? You’ll never be able to see me. Not really.” She gave a chuckle, his blood on her arm mixing with her own, the coppery tag the predominant smell permeating the air.“Let me help you.” He reaches out his hand, stretching it out to hers. “Let me pull you up like you once did for me. You don’t have to be like this.”She grasps his hand, dangling solely from his grip off the edge. “Like what? Like a villain?”“Destructive. Self-destructive. Irrational. Hair-trigger temper. Violent.”She gave him a deadpan look, piercing through her veneer ...

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I am a student who is also an author in my (albeit limited) free time. I’ve been a bookworm since I learned how to read at age 5, and am bilingual (English and Russian) hopefully soon to make that trilingual with Spanish. My stories never fit the stereotype, and I make a sport of plot twists at rarest once every 10k words of story in my novel projects, and at least one per short story.