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Submitted to Contest #188
tw- violence, reference to suicide - I found it on the dark web. That should have been my first indication that there would be a catch. Like a lot of similarly minded weirdos I have a drab sense of curiosity and was avoiding real feelings in my corporeal life by perusing the extreme oddities of others. Sounds healthy, right? I was submerged in some bizarre auction, where the auctioneer was called “COMPUTER” and those participating in the bidding had screen names made of only numbers. My user was called “Jamesy6...
Submitted to Contest #187
Every day started the same. Before the club, that is. This rainy morning started the same as always: I looked in the mirror with my eyes squinted. The squinting helped me not to see it. I had trained my eyes only to look at my forehead, or at my lips and chin... I just couldn’t look... I could NOT look at... it. My computer is set up in one corner of my studio apartment. Sometimes to strangers in chat rooms I would refer to it as my: “home office”. It was a desk with a fold-out partition ...
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