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Weekly Contest #82
Trigger warning: rape The year is 1949. My name is Melanie, I am 58 years old and I work as a cleaning lady at the University of Manchester. I have been a cleaning lady for 15 years now and before that I was a mother. I have arthritis and my ankles pain so much, that I sometimes feel that I cannot walk anymore. Which means that I have already walked to the end of my life and here I am, a nothing and a nobody. I live in Ordsall, with Tom. We have 5 children. There’s Jamie, Johnie, Fred, Howard and Linda. Jamie, Johnie and Fred h...
Weekly Contest #81
Biji always tells the most amazing stories. Mostly they are reminiscences from the past and sometimes they are discursive anecdotes that ramble on a bit, and I have to control myself from rolling my eyes or using hand gestures to make her get to the point. But always delivered with a twinkle in her crinkled eyes, and end with her outstretched hug-demanding arms. And then you get enveloped in THAT hug. Her face buried in my chest and her arms surprisingly strong for her age, as she squeezes me around my waist or shoulders depending on how low...
Weekly Contest #79
“Being a family means you are part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life.”- Lisa Weed.You were my only family.People said you were always remote. No one ever knew what you were thinking. But I knew love because of you.I remember at Siddharth’s wedding last year, I thought you were angry all the time because of the fight we had earlier that day. You sat there on that chair and watched while we danced. Not that you ever danced at parties, but sometimes, I would catch a smile on your face whe...
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