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Weekly Contest #370
THE COUNTDOWN(TW: substance abuse, mental health, minors)The kitchen timer blinked its red numbers across the room, ticking down toward zero while Mom tried to make dinner feel ordinary. Arden sat on the floor with her markers, humming a tune she had made up. I sat at the table with my notebook open, pretending to care about the assignment in front of me. The timer kept moving, steady and unbothered, as if it had no idea what kind of night it was about to become.Mom’s phone lit up before the timer reached zero. She looked at the screen for a...
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