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Submitted to Contest #329
Rumors ate their way through a small town like cancer to a bone. They were dripping with curiosity and the enjoyment of troubles that were not ones own. It didn’t take long for her ears to pick up the whispers that followed at her back. As a child, Sybil had devoured those narratives, passing them from her mouth to another like a bird would feed its young. As a grown women, she found the taste of rumors sour. Still, if they wished to mutter into the sides of their hands about the mess she had become, Sybil could do very little. Dropping agai...
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