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Slip Sliding Sublimity

Submitted to Contest #295

CW: Themes of and/or references to suicide and mental illness.I like living life inside the edge. It’s wider than you think.If you really look at the point of a knife, the side of a ruler, or even the thinness of a human hair, you can see the middle where both sides meld. This in-between area can be dangerous. God knows that it’s easy to bleed profusely from a thin paper cut that stings like hell. Or it can be a zone that is completely protected, like in the eye of a storm. Once you grasp how to get there, it's easy to remain in this concent...

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