Mary Butler

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“Insatiable” by Mary Butler

Submitted to Contest #275

Darkness.Not the kind that comes when you close your eyes. This is something else—heavy, dense, like the world’s been erased. It’s pressing down, sinking through me. I can’t breathe—can I? My chest should be moving, doing…something.I don’t know why I expect that.Then…something else. A noise. No, not a noise. A memory.“I love you, babe.” A woman’s voice—warm, laughing. I can almost feel her next to me, see her face, smell her perfume, something like freshly peeled oranges—Gone. Just like that.I try to hold onto it, but it slips away like smok...

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