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Submitted to Contest #51
The first time you ever see a ghost, you’re fourteen and she’s your dead sister.You’re sitting cross-legged on the dock, sweating. The summer heat is obscene, so thick and rich and suffocating, you close your eyes in defense against the sun. When you open them, a girl floats past you on the water.She is translucent, opaque-eyed, her hair a matted silver clump threaded through with lake gunk. You don’t recognize her until she straightens, treading water, and eyes you. Your sister used to wear that same calculating, biting stare. Your sister u...
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