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Weekly Contest #38
There’s a bottle of bourbon and a denim sky with my name on it. Been waiting all day for this, 7:30 PM, right after “AFTERNOON SNACK” and “MOVIE.” People say making schedules in times like these helps but, frankly, I feel like I’m only helping myself become an alcoholic.I push my front door open, glancing down at my red-socked feet as they bleed along the porch’s concrete. And then I smell the smoke. Fucking cigarettes. There’s a rustling of fabric as a chubby body shifts in a chair across from me. My geriatric, white neighbor. I know him va...
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ONTARIO, CANADA 1891 I am in the tree again. They will kill me. I am in the tree again and they will kill me. They will whip new feathers along my arms and shins, blue and red and burning as lightning. A hundred new feathers, yet I cannot fly.I scrape the broken leaves from my hair and stumble down the branches.One. Two. Three. Four. Five.They remember the weight of my feet. I have been here many nights before. It is morning now and the fathers will be waiting for my empty bed to scream out like a white mouth, to tattle on me and spit u...
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