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Kylie Griffey

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Lucy loses her friends, and her softball game

Submitted to Contest #165

I never knew how getting punched in the face would feel. I figured I could imagine it pretty well, I’d been hit on accident before, tooth bloodied by a softball to the mouth at my second ever game at eleven years old. I remember my face flushing hot as I touched my mouth with a slightly shaky hand, pulling it back to see red blots on my fingertips. Tears welled in my eyes as I sobbed an ugly childish cry, teammates running over to comfort me. This was different. Maybe it was the intention behind it, or the impact of a human hand rather than ...

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