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Submitted to Contest #55
Can you keep a secret, Ama? Her eyes perk up. Just like they do every time I whisper to her. She turns to look me straight in the eye. The kind of look I’ve always sworn reached right into the depths of my soul. Her gaze was relentless. It searched me. It urged me to just blurt it out. Just say this thing I have been keeping hidden for as long as I could remember. This dirty thing. But I didn’t. I couldn’t. I was scared. No, terrified. She starts to claw at my leg, a low growl stuck in her throat. Dog speak for ‘tell me already!’ Forge...
Submitted to Contest #49
“Sometimes I feel like I’m not a real person. Sometimes I feel like I’m only interesting because I’m broken. Sometimes I feel like I have to try twice as hard to be liked. Those are all okay. I can deal with them. What I can’t deal with is the fact that I always feels like I am nothing more than my flaws. I feel like my flaws define me, that they are the very substance of who I am. I judge myself fundamentally as a person based solely on my flaws, so why wouldn’t everybody else?” He stares at me like I’m crazy. And maybe I am. I have no id...
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