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Weekly Contest #185
This isn’t a story; this isn’t made up or exaggerated. This isn’t happy or joyous, but it is hopeful. Sitting here on the cold bathroom floor staring numbly at the old blood dried into the cracks of the tiles I wonder, why me? Why not me? Twirling the silver blade in my fingers I wonder why I can’t stop. Why do I do it. Fighting the darkness of my thoughts, feeling so much shame, guilt and embarrassment I question why I can’t stop. Finally, I can hold back no longer and with trembling tear-stained hands a new red line is created amongst the ...
Weekly Contest #184
It started with small things, things you would hardly notice or pay mind to. The kind of things we all experience through our lives, like Deja vu. Those times you could have sworn that you told someone something, belongings impossibly going missing, things we put down to human error. But then it was memories of whole conversations that were never had, appointments that were never made. At first I thought it was my memory, that maybe I was working too much, too stressed, too tired. I took time off, did yoga, learned to meditate but it continu...
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