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Weekly Contest #358
Content Warning: This piece contains themes of youth violence, trauma, juvenile detention, and substance abuse. The Invisible CrownAn Integration of Prompts 1-5Nobody believed in me. That was their first mistake.But the real mistake was mine — I believed them first. I was fourteen when I put a bullet in a boy's face. Not because I wanted him dead. Because I wanted me dead, and he was standing where I couldn't reach myself. The system swallowed me like a stone swallowed by a lake — no splash, no ripple, just gone. Three years in j...
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