Monique Lewis

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“The Cards We Draw, The Ones We Play” by Monique Lewis

Submitted to Contest #260

Fire embers dance towards the midnight sky as the orange glow of the fire flickers shadow and light across his face. The face I had grown to love over the years. The face that will continue to be etched with memories and smile lines that stretch from the corners of his eyes, begging for more moments of shared laughter. I wonder if the lines in my face would give away the gnawing guilt and pain that ached my bones and the nausea that swelled in the pit of my stomach. “Marshmallow?” Felix asks, drawing his half-burnt marshmallow from the fire,...

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