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Sam Atdrik

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The Five Stages of Grief: How Life Fell Apart Before Coming Back Together

Submitted to Contest #230

TW: Self-harm, Mental Health, and Death May 1st, 2022: the day the world stopped and a year since you’ve died. Even now, home doesn’t feel like home and your glaring absence haunts the rooms of this house. Your voice echoes in the living room, like a ghostly call, while your shadows lurk in every corner; your smell, too, somehow still permeates the air of this place. To feel closer to you I sit in the place you used to, cycling through memories of the aftermath of your death. This is my retelling of how the world began to spin slowly, day by...

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