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Submitted to Contest #294
Content warning: depression and suicidal ideation/attempted suicide-----------------------------------------It had come on so gradually that it took a while to notice. Even for her. That while the days got lighter and the spring blossoms—egg yolk, white and amethyst—congregated in ditches and on patches of ground free from snow, she turned ever more towards darkness. It is not the first time, so she knows how these things usually go. Call loved ones. Make plans. Go outside. Do your homework, do your job, try to take it day by day and d...
Submitted to Contest #292
In the calendar, they are holy. She wonders idly why they were given the colour of blood. Her inner eye conjures up light reflected sparingly through multicoloured glass, the smell of incense, a cool sort of dampness from massive stone walls, a deep, steady chanting. Though perhaps the red hearkens back further, to rituals of blood sacrifice. Giving something in order to receive. Sympathetic magic. This seems to her now—during her own red days—appropriate. What would she sacrifice? The hardened shell of her tells her she already made her sac...
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