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Penelope Flowers

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2020

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community mental health team clinic waiting room

Penelope Flowers

Submitted to Contest #49

anxious, i’m early.also waiting to see shrinkacquaintance not friendwe exchange greetings.we were in a support groupyears ago. she. meshe and i fell outover religion and truth.civil only sinceunhesitant sheleans towards me and whispers,“remember barry?”i remember him.we were close once years agowhen life was awfulwhen marriage crumbledwhen my bipolar illnesswent wild, unstablewhen i joined the groupwhere i met her and barrywhere i shared my painmy deep dark secretssimilar to their secretsempathy at last!scared of rejectionmeeting only empath...

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