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Maddie Rune🥀

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One Second of Clarity

Maddie Rune🥀

Each breath drags in decay, heavy as wet dirt in my lungs. I stumble through the streets, boots scuffing fractured asphalt, surrounded by the faceless. Their heads are smudges—oil smears on a windshield, no eyes, no mouths, just a haze where a person should be. My own reflection’s the same, a distorted smear in the puddles I pass. This is the world now: no one sees until you spill your rot. Confess your filth, they say, and the blur peels back. Truth is the key. Truth is the cage.I’ve never confessed. Not once. Twenty-nine years in this skin...

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Seconds Bleed: Time Ticks Backward, and You're Next

Maddie Rune🥀

Submitted to Contest #297

Elliot Voss held a grudge against digital files—they hid their flaws too well—but the unmarked drive begged him to grab it. He tapped his fingers—3-2-1-pause—a nervous tic from years of counting seconds. He’d spotted it at a flea market on a gloomy Saturday, half-buried under a tarp with warped VHS tapes and a busted Walkman, its scuffed shell buzzing faintly in his grip. The vendor, a haggard man with yellowed teeth, gave a lazy shrug. “Dug it out of a dumpster. Five bucks.” Elliot paid cash and brought it back to his apartment, a dim tangl...

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