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Submitted to Contest #303
Once, after a beating, the boy’s mother tells him that he is a sadist. He didn't know the word at the time, but afterwards, he turns it around in his head. Sadist. He goes to his room and lies down, staring at the ceiling, painted brown by the previous owner. He imagines the word spelled out in blue ink over top of it, repeated in his mother’s handwriting, then his father’s, and then his. He always thought he had the prettiest print of the three of them, though he never said it. He knew the truth: handwriting was a weak skill for a white boy...
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