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Weekly Contest #348
thumpI did not know what the sound was at first.It came from everywhere and nowhere at once—something beneath the surface of me, something that did not belong to the pieces I could see. I thought perhaps it was the room itself, some hidden mechanism continuing its work after I had been assembled.But when I pressed my hand against my chest, the sound answered me.thumpAlive, he had said.You are alive.He gave me words before I understood what they were for.The body he gave me does not feel whole. It feels heavy, as if parts of it remember somet...
Weekly Contest #346
Mara is good at leaving. It’s 5 a.m. on an ordinary Tuesday, and her blue Honda Civic is overpacked—stuffed past reason, past intention. Designer suitcases sit half-zipped in the backseat alongside blue Walmart totes, likely handed down from her mother, whose version of organization has always looked suspiciously like chaos. (The apple doesn’t fall far.) There are takeout containers going on a week old, a ZZ plant named Therapuss, and a stack of possibly classified files she “forgot” to return. She slides Therapuss into the passenger seat, a...
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