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Weekly Contest #272
(CW: implied suicide and abuse. Substance abuse, fire, religious trauma and physical violence) The boy prayed alone in the woods. The popping of his fire had kept him from sleep, so the boy knelt alone and prayed at the bases of the spruce trees. It was nights like these when he missed his old bed. He missed many things. Walls to shield him from the cold, a roof to shield him from rain and those caretakers who made him warm food. Food. The boy eyed the half eaten mushroom he’d dug up for dinner cast astray. His stomach gurgled an...
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