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Weekly Contest #343
There once was a man who loved control more than he loved air. He did not begin this way. He was born on a moshav in Israel, where citrus trees split the heat with their sharp sweetness and dust clung to ankles. His father ran a girls’ school — posture, discipline, straight lines. His mother worked for WIZO and believed nourishment was proof of love. As a baby, he sat in a wooden highchair in a narrow tiled kitchen. The spoon came whether he opened his mouth or not. “Eat.” If he turned away, the spoon followed. If he gagged, it pressed deepe...
Weekly Contest #342
Evelyn was the youngest, and everyone knew it by the way the room softened when she entered. Regina noticed it every time — how voices lowered, how shoulders eased, how even her brothers shifted their chairs to make space. Regina had not entered rooms that way. She had crossed an ocean with two dresses folded into a borrowed suitcase and hands already roughened by work. No one had taken her by the wrist and guided her forward. Whatever steadiness she wanted, she would have to build with her own palms. She had arrived in New York at thirteen...
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