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Submitted to Contest #282
TW: eating disorders, self harmThe bag was packed. Neatly, meticulously, as if in folding my clothes I could manifest a tidier mind. A novel rested on top–unread, but worn from the times I’d picked it up and pretended I would. I sat by the edge of the bed, back straight, hands resting on my knees. The air was always the same here–lingering with antiseptic and something else I couldn’t name. A medical, cool smell. The nurse had said someone would come for me soon. Fifteen minutes, maybe twenty. I didn’t check the clock. Instead, I stare...
Submitted to Contest #281
The laughter started softly at first, toying somewhere between joy and restlessness, but by midnight, he thought his parents’ faces would split in two. Echoes of their cheer filled the empty house, relentless and jagged, bleeding with a disturbing insincerity. Deep smile lines pressed into his dad’s cheeks as though calved from fingernails. His eyes, glassy and unmoving, fixated somewhere on the bookcase. Mum clutched her sides, splayed on the couch seat like a marionette with loose strings, gasping as she howled and laughed without pause.&n...
Submitted to Contest #245
My name is a foreign stranger to my ears, a song from a far away memory whose melody has long been forgotten. Each syllable carves like a knife to my chest, pressing deeper until crimson blood beads at the place scarred flesh meets the harsh coolness of the blade. “Rowan Wilder.”Chancellor Cage repeats himself into the microphone and this time my feet step forward like a soldier to an order, body moving before my mind can beg to stop it. Around me, the Ecliptic Hall billows with the pellucid stained glasses of colour glinting in honeyed...
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