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Weekly Contest #271
(CW: swearing, violence, suicidal thoughts) I didn’t recognise the stranger, but my body did. My gut squirmed and the vein in my temple began throbbing. Then my fists and jaw clenched and the muscles in my arms started spasming like in the days when I used to hit the gym obsessively – to ‘clear my head’, I had told the therapist, leaving out the faces I envisioned on the punching bag. But who was the stranger? He had passed me in the park. Late twenties. Longish, strawberry blond hair. Aquiline nose and a beard straddling the boundary betwe...
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