Rachel Riddle

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“Magic” by Rachel Riddle

Submitted to Contest #146

I breathe deeply in and out, my eyes squeezed tightly shut and my heart pounding in my chest as I try to calm myself. My hands tightly grip the steering wheel while I sit in the parking lot of the Greenmark Theater. I hate this feeling. Every moment, my stomach feels as if it’s twisting into knots. Even when there is not a thing to be anxious about, my body doesn’t seem to know it.  Despite feeling it all my life, I can’t seem to explain it to anyone else. My anxieties are constant and always painful. But in the everyday they sort of...

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