Maria Awan

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“Worse Ways” by Maria Awan

Submitted to Contest #282

Silena runs with a ferocity she didn’t think she’d ever need again. Her feet thump, thump, thump on the ground and her eyes search the dirty rooftop desperately for a familiar May. She knows she’s taking too long. She can feel the time slipping through her fingers like grave dirt. She bursts out onto her 4th rooftop, a quick scan providing nothing. She turns around. Her ears catch onto the quietest sound. A scuff, a wherper. She runs over to the other corner of the building and checks behind a wall.  There she is. May lays on the floor,...

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