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Submitted to Contest #220
Some people would be truly rattled by an anxious, quiet girl heading to the Straits of Messina all by herself, so I must’ve looked suspicious. I only made it worse every time I glanced over my shoulder. No one’s following, Skai. There was no way I could believe that. I couldn’t discern the voice in my head from the distant one insisting that I get out of this fog and go home. I check again, glaring through the fog. A shadowy figure shifted into sight. My cold breath catches. I forced myself to look away. The intense trembling in my ...
Submitted to Contest #189
He does not wield the power to cheapen me, yet he succeeds in doing so. Foolish curiosity provokes me to understand all his words and methods of expression. That noisome venom he spits is simply fascinating. I cannot stop thinking about it. Never has a human been able to lure me to their side with stupidity. Now there is a Koi-Kaze ring bonded to my finger and bizarre mortal interests that oppress my nature. I appear as a loving wife. I am a glad witness to his mistakes. I appear as the traditional Japanese woman, void of the foreigners’ ste...
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