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Submitted to Contest #264
“That’s Clarissa. She likes to sew,” says the woman Alice assumes is a nurse showing her around. She wears pale yellow scrubs as she leads her through the day room. The woman she gestured to is stabbing at a piece of fabric with a plastic needle. “We give her blunt plastic ones.” “And that’s safe?” Alice can’t help but ask. She’s still in her everyday clothes, but suspects she’ll be asked to change into the gown the woman with the needle is wearing. The woman shrugs. The name tag pinned to her shirt reads, “Sophia,” in a scribbled font...
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