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Weekly Contest #103
CW: Mention of intrusive thoughtsEmil’s mother told him that he got his cowardice from his father. His father neglected to be a part of Emil’s life to disprove this notion. “He told me that he loved me,” she told him, words made brittle after years of erosion as she said them again and again. “That he would marry me. Didn’t matter if we were seventeen and poor. Then you were born and all of a sudden he had better places to be and better women to sleep with.” She had no photographs of Emil’s father, nor would she speak aloud his nam...
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