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Submitted to Contest #330
I never knew this was how a story begins… The ceiling is the first thing I see. Big white tiles, a hairline crack running like a river between two of them. There’s that hospital hum—lights, vents, some unseen machine somewhere keeping time better than I am. My heart is already racing before I even remember why. A family member. That’s the first thought that lands. Not a name, not a face—just that raw pull in my chest like a cord leading under a closed door. Someone I love is in trouble. I know that much. The rest is fog. I sit down in one of...
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