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Submitted to Contest #311
This story contains sensitive themes around mental health, violence and self harm. The words rattled off the tiny kitchen t.v. into the radio silence air, as if snatching the daylight directly off thecountertops. It felt all too synchronistic. It felt, louder, than it probably actually was, as I stood over It, vermillion still dripping from my well sharpened Swiss. “Every time,” I thought. Why does this happen, every time I try to do Better. I dripped all over the cantaloupe I had intended to eat. Sometimes it’s time, too ...
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