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Submitted to Contest #38
In the dawn light he is golden. Gooseflesh rises to a shudder that makes the painful spots flinch and the black eye wince. He is gaunt, his stomach sucked in under his ribs away from the morning cold. His knuckles grip the balcony railing, turn whitish pink and let go. He adjusts his boxers, grants himself the fleeting glance of life five storeys below, splattered out on the pavement and dispenses with those thoughts and feelings. A man, his husband, steps out onto the balcony behind him. Robed up but wearing nothing underneath, ...
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