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Marc Padilla

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Submitted to Contest #79

TW: violence My mom’s last words were, “Every pain that we shared was for you. If you ever want to build a family, find yourself someone that mirrors you. Find someone and love her the way I loved you.” She was all that I have and so upon her death, the world had left nothing for me.   There was no one to care for me anymore. No one to comb my thinning hair. There was no one to help me stitch an open wound once I suffered another. It is hard as well to chop food with this two-fingered left hand.   We had lived in this wooden hut in...

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A Day in the Park

Submitted to Contest #79

This unexpected day has come. Time froze. I was just thinking about where shall I have my dinner as I stroll on this craquelure of a concrete park’s floor, peppered with the orange crisp leaves of the afternoon autumn when a woman … a woman who felt so familiar grabbed me by the shoulders. Her eyes gash like spring while her lips tremble like ripples. She felt so familiar that the moment I had my eyes set on hers, It felt like I was lost and I was home at the same time. Her lips tried to open every now and then but it appears to me somethi...

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