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Submitted to Contest #337
I coughed, heaving into my arm as dust entered my lungs. It lingered always. Billowing around me like a lurking monster. Never far away, watching from the corner of my eye. The dust was bad, and the darkness was worse, but the loneliness—that would be my ending. It crawled into my chest slowly, wrapping its arms around me and encompassing me until I was just a remnant of myself, guided only by a measure of hope that one day—no, I couldn’t think of that.I used to count the hours, then the days, until it didn’t matter anymore. No one was comin...
Submitted to Contest #227
When I first became aware, I was cold. Not the crisp cold of an Autumn afternoon, but the bitter, angry cold that you find deep in the darkness of winter. The kind of cold that burns your skin in a way you never imagined it could. The kind of cold that eventually leaves you numb to the world. The cold that starts with tingling fingertips that travels up your arms and legs until everything you are, exists only in the presence of the cold. It breaches your chest, hardening your heart into a block of heavy ice. That’s the cold I felt ...
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