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Weekly Contest #47
Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl By Alice Sampson “Just say it.” You tell yourself. “I still love you.” No. Goddammit you’re such a cliché, fucking hell. What she gonna say to that? “I love you too.” I don’t think so. She broke up with you man. Helen loved you but she wasn’t in love with you. To think that you really believed you could keep a girl like that. You just got lucky. You met her before she blossomed, when she was inexperienced and young. But from the beginning you could see who she’d become – there were glimpses. Like the time she w...
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I was born just outside London the year after the war ended. My parents were happy. When my mother realised she was pregnant the war hadn’t ended yet and although many knew it wouldn’t be long, she didn’t trust that. Complete pessimist my mother was. But then the war ended and five months later I was born. They were happy that I entered a world without war, where I wouldn’t have to fight, wouldn’t have to suffer and for the briefest moment my mother was an optimist. Twenty years later another war began and I was the perfect age to fight. Me...
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