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Submitted to Contest #100
CW: violence She hated snow peas. The way they became little strings after chewing, she said, frustrated her when they got stuck in her teeth. Mother loved snow peas. Even during the summer months she tried to keep them alive. But they usually died and mother would spend the rest of the summer months remarking on how this meal or that meal would have been better with those peas on our plates. Since her phone call, I’ve wracked my brain trying to think of what to cook for tonight’s meal. I thought of something with chicken or bee...
Submitted to Contest #99
It’s difficult to remember what the dark looks like. Sometimes I collect all the blankets in the house, lay them on top of one another, and bury myself underneath. Sometimes I dive deep into the town pool and clench my eyes tightly. Sometimes I lock myself in the pantry cupboard and tape the cracks. Still, the light finds a way in. Between the blanket layer, and the air bubbles and the small splits in the wood, it always finds a way in. I heard some people on the television talking about places underground where you can pay to visit the dark...
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