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Weekly Contest #369
Content Warning: The following story contains themes of child abuse and mild gore. Saira Khatoon sat on the white sheets amidst the grievers as they shook back and forth. In front of her were date seeds and red beans lined up in depleting mounds as the women would occasionally scoop up fists full of them. Saira stared at the hands of the woman right next to her— some distant relative of the dead man who might have met him no more than perhaps twice during his living days. She watched as the woman released her handful of pits into her lap one...
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