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Weekly Contest #338
(Note: This story contains sensitive language and mentions self harm.) When you're locked up, the ways you can pass time become limited. Restricting access to positive entertainment and outlets to redirect negative behavior is intentional. The folks want us to feel every second of our sentence; they want us to remember how jail feels on our skin and how fear, uncertainty and survival weigh on the soul. Most days, I found myself drawing Amaria from memory. Before ending up in jail behind that gang shit, I'd never even thought of picking up a...
Weekly Contest #219
"You missed my calls yesterday." My boyfriend's scruffy voice came over the receiver crackly and barely audible. I'd grown used to the extra strain my ears had to take to hear what he was saying, so I could respond without having to pause to decode what might've been said. Though his greeting made my heart twinge with a little guilt, I gripped my pink and purple phone case in annoyance anyway, catching a few of my brown hairs that were rolled into perfect, meticulous curls. I forced the strands free with unnecessary force. The hours I’d ...
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