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Weekly Contest #181
Note: This story contains themes of sexual violence and mental health. Everything reminded me of her. Her very soul lurked in that house, I think— it was less that I saw her, saw her hair still on the furniture and her smell still clinging to the curtains— she was just there. Like she never left. Sometimes I swore I could hear her humming in the kitchen, swore I saw glimpses of her in the mirrors. I knew it was just the part of me that missed her, of course. I felt like such a cliche in those days, wandering around an empty house and wal...
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