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Submitted to Contest #80
I shivered at the reflection on my dressing table mirror. I couldn't recognise the person I had become. Trying to hold on to the edges of the table as a quake tore through me forcing my glass of water to move to the rhythm. Trying to hold my lips shut as a loud shriek fought to be released. And what shook me so bad? Memories, too many of them. Some of them I couldn't believe I survived. And the girl looking back at me, she was terrified. The tan on her skin seemed to be slowly fading into the darkness around her. Her pupils shrank to merely ...
Submitted to Contest #79
I broke. In that moment, the world lost all sense - or was it just me? I felt the sunlight draining out of my life. I feel the dark creeping in and staining every ornament I held sacred. Staining my heart. Staining my soul. Staining my everything. I fell to the heated vinyl floor, but it felt as cold as ice. My world froze over the instant he said the piercing words. My husband for nearly a decade. The father to my two wonderful sons. The man I had called lover for so long. How dare he tell me," Your sister and I are lovers!" I went pale...
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