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Submitted to Contest #295
Author’s Note: This story contains elements of urban violence, street slang, profanity, and culturally sensitive or degrading language. These choices are not made lightly—they reflect the author’s deep understanding of the world in which these characters live. The dialogue, tone, and rawness of the scenes are intentional, designed to authentically capture a community’s voice, its beauty, its struggle, and the contradictions it carries. Rather than sanitize or censor, the author seeks to illuminate. This is not exploitation. This is exposure—...
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