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Submitted to Contest #22
I hate parties. Piper weaved through the crowd of people, suffocating. The heat, the noise, the lights, the colors, she wanted to pass out. She wanted to breathe. But that wasn’t the worst part of it, no the worst were the smiles. Smiles carved of expectation, of “this is going to be a great night”, of the yearn to impress. Their craftsmanship was so fine that you almost couldn’t tell they weren’t real, that is, until you look at the eyes. Those were too occupied darting around the room in search of any reflective surface to take part in the...
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