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Submitted to Contest #230
I had never believed I was truly deserving of love. I didn't even know the meaning of the word. Love was like weeds growing around my heart. They strangled my lungs and cracked my ribs until all that was left in my chest was a gaping hole. That was until I met Jude. I first met her in a speakeasy in south Manchester. She was wearing a midnight blue pantsuit that fit her perfectly. I was pulled to her through the crowd. I hate that I was too drunk to ask for her name then. She spent the night with me drinking until we couldn't speak. When ...
Submitted to Contest #229
Christmas was never the same after the year I turned fifteen. Of course, I was nearing the end of puberty. Like other boys my age, I had a dark air around me. The storm of it washed away the naivete of my childhood. My mother, a crude and cold woman called it, "finally growing a pair". She wasn't the same after that year either. Not when my father had the nerve to die the day before Christmas Eve. I was a quiet child. My mother was loud. She and her girlfriends were like catbirds fighting with crows at all hours of the day. Now that my fath...
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