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Submitted to Contest #339
The room sat in heavy silence, interrupted only by the low and persistent hum of the fluorescent lights. The noise pressed the silence deeper into my bones. "Take all the time you need," my doctor offered after telling me I had less than a year left to live. “Is that a joke?” I quipped. I gathered the stack of pamphlets he’d handed me—support groups, grief guides, instructions on breaking the news to family—none of it felt real in my hands. I had no intention of telling my family. Mainly because I was estranged from my daughter, and she was ...
Submitted to Contest #330
She opened the front door, and he was on his knees. Why did it excite her to see him begging? She knew there was absolutely nothing he could say or do that would make her take him back. Her lips, which had been curved into a faint smile a moment ago, somewhat flattened now into a satisfying, surreptitious smirk. But there she was, giving the appearance of a peacemaker. Providing some semblance of hope to the hopeless. Truth be told, she'd cut him off, moved on, sung all the sad songs, and memorized the lyrics. She'd deglazed her house of hi...
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