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Submitted to Contest #302
Sensitive content warning. This story does contain the following trigger warnings;Substance abusePhysical violence and goreSuicide attempt She sat there, staring aimlessly at the infomercial playing across the screen. The blinds were pulled tightly shut, blocking out even a glimmer of light, suffocating me in its abyss-like darkness. I didn’t want to be here. I shouldn’t have gotten here first. I wanted to peel out of my own skin, let my soul slither across the floor and through the crack at the bottom of the front door. Her darker skin see...
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