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Charlie Pratt

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Death of Childhood

Submitted to Contest #335

Do not drink the water. Do not eat the food. Your stomach is so empty, when it growls the echoes bounce around your innards. There is no-one to speak to, but if there was, speech would be unavailable to you. Your throat cracks. The impatient hunger you felt before dinner as a child. The greedy thirst on school sports day, sweating under the sun. Mouth parched before exams. This isn’t like those faraway times. Do not drink the water. Do not eat the food. But why? There it is, laid out in the party room, cherries on top glistening under the ...

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