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Submitted to Contest #227
The cold is slightly alarming these days and it wraps around Kayla ominously. It feels faintly suffocating, almost like the air can’t quite make it into her lungs. But it’s always been like this. Ever since that one dreadful night in December a few years ago, winter has not been her favourite season. However, being thirty-two with a child limits her options of scurrying into a vegetative state—she can’t just let her brain shut down. Not when there’s a mini-human living in the same premise as her. As if summoned by a mere thought, her ki...
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