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Weekly Contest #344
CW: This story contains themes of bullying, homophobia (including a slur), explicit language, and terminal illness. “Did you steal my chalk?” a boy interrupts my coloring. “What?” “I was using that chalk,” he says, arms crossed across his chest. Curly black hair falls into his eyes, and knobby knees are covered in bandages and bruises. Dark brown eyes narrow on me. “I-,” I start, but now that he is staring at me, I’m scared I’ll start stuttering. “I would have given you some,” he says. I look down at the picture ...
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