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Submitted to Contest #292
“Almost there!” You call back to me, a few paces ahead. The wind is whipping your hair into a frenzy; salt mist tangling it playfully into a halo of platinum curls that bounce and shift with each step you take. It seems to be having the opposite effect on me; I didn’t know my hair was even long enough to get stuck in my mouth and nose before today.“I don’t believe you!” I managed to choke out, between laboured breaths. The straps of my backpack are beginning to bite into my shoulders, gnawing deeper with every step. My clammy hands are findi...
Submitted to Contest #291
NOTE/TW: This story contains themes of substance abuse and physical violence.I first realised I had a drinking problem five years ago. It was three in the morning, and I’d invited some stranger back to my apartment after a particularly messy night out. I just had this moment of clarity afterwards, lying next to him in bed, head spinning, barely lucid, licking the last of his blood from my fingers, and it all hit me at once. What was I doing with myself? Who had I let myself become? I can’t begin to tell you how much money I used to drop on n...
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