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Submitted to Contest #315
To exist in prison is to be suspended in a jar of formaldehyde—preserved, observed, never quite alive. The cell is a mausoleum, and I its most charming corpse. The walls, jaundiced with the stains of a thousand sleepless hands, close in at night like the jaws of some ancient beast. My reflection in the polished steel of the sink is a study in contrasts: a face too handsome for these surroundings, features carved with the careful malice of a Renaissance devil—angular jaw, lips soft and misleading, eyes pale as a winter sun, quick to flicker w...
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