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Weekly Contest #375
(The following story contains depictions of ocd-related self harm and suicide. Reader discretion is advised.) Mother’s fingers are scarred with matchstick burns. It is hard to remember a time they were once unscathed, but I know it existed. Like every evening, as the day draws to its inevitable end, she stands in front of the fireplace, strikes a match against the stone and the flame ignites. It is small and timid at first, like a newborn fawn staggering behind its mother, afraid it will be left behind. Soon it learns it must consume in ord...
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