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Chandra Jordan

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The Buttons

The Buttons When Mara first met Elias, he was standing on a chair in the back of a used bookstore, trying to coax a leak out of the ceiling with a saucepan. “It’s not what it looks like,” he said as water plinked into the metal. “I’m conducting a symphony.” She glanced at the ceiling, then at the mismatched pots arranged along the aisle. “In D minor?” “More like damp minor.” That was the first thing she noticed about him—his refusal to let inconvenience harden into complaint. Rainwater crept down the plaster in uncertain veins, and he turned...

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A Second Chance

Weekly Contest #342

TW: SA, Mental Health She didn’t notice the envelope at first because her mornings were built to survive, not to look. Coffee. Phone. The careful avoidance of mirrors. The dog-eared notebook she kept meaning to throw out but never did, because it still smelled faintly like possibility. It was tucked under the doormat like an apology that didn’t want to be seen. No return address. Her name written in black ink, letters too neat to be casual, too familiar to be wrong. Christie Miranda. Her stomach performed the old trick—drop, twist, brace—li...

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