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Submitted to Contest #318
Every morning, the train doors opened with the same sigh, and she slipped in like a shadow. To most passengers, she was invisible, a woman in a plain coat, earbuds in, gaze steady on the floor. But inside her head, Barbara Pravi was singing:“Voilà, voilà, qui je suis…”She mouthed the words silently, her lips shaping the anthem she wasn’t ready to speak aloud. The music carried her across the city, through the blur of concrete and steel, toward another day in an office where she existed only as background. At work, the spotlight always landed...
Submitted to Contest #312
Lara stood in the dim light of her bathroom, the tiles cold beneath her feet, the silence pressing gently on her shoulders. The buzz of the world outside felt distant, as what she used to call life was continuing somewhere far away without her. Her hand trembled as she reached for the fogged-up mirror, wiping away the mist with the edge of her pale palm.It was the first time she had dared to look really since her cancer battle had ended.Not the kind of battle people read about in headlines or watched unfold in war films. No dramatic soundtra...
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