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Submitted to Contest #274
The first time I noticed it, I was eight years old. It was a reflection of someone else, not myself, a grim smile nothing like my own. It was probably a nightmare,’ my parents told me, ‘nothing to worry about.’ I hadn’t been back to my childhood home since one night, a couple of months later, when I had my final night terror, yelling and screaming loudly enough to have woken everyone in the house. The following day I heard it over the speakers. ‘Lilah, please report to the principal’s office.’ Tears flooded my eyes in the back of the car, as...
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