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Mookie Morton

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there is no hiding inside the passage of time

Submitted to Contest #295

The ache is bone deep. Nova’s eyes fixed on the page. Tapah, in Sanskrit, meant both “involuntary pain experienced by the senses” and “voluntary control of the senses.” An itch was like that, it had a way of summoning such opposing forces. Scratching is so abrasive, so demeaning, so unforgiving, that it forced her to embody a sort of convoluted self restraint. She dug deep within her psyche to stop her nails from digging deep into her flesh with austerity fit for a saint. The walls in her room began their normal chanting; it’s what awoke her...

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