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Submitted to Contest #311
No touching.No grabbing.Behave. Again and again. Those were the words, but they wouldn’t stick. Of course they wouldn’t. Words like that never do—not when she was already halfway to exploding.Body wiggling. Hands waving frantically. Feet hopping like they couldn’t decide whether to run or stay still. Squeezing every muscle, holding it, releasing it—over and over.This was her knowing tell. The signal that she’d break the rules the instant she stepped inside. The brass glass doors slid open with a swoosh. She was here!At the place.The land of ...
Submitted to Contest #309
I didn’t think I could go in there anymore.Three weeks. That’s how long I’d avoided stepping foot in the kitchen. Long enough for the lingering odor of stale food and takeout to seep into other parts of the house, making it clear I couldn’t keep dodging this place.I was tired of eating out. It wasn’t just expensive—it felt like I was sliding back into the old, isolated me.I hovered in the doorway, hesitating. My hand gripped the frame, but I didn’t step in. It was just as we left it, a snapshot of the last meal I cooked: dirty dishes stacked...
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