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Submitted to Contest #199
It’s too much the ninth time I feel someone else’s sweat on my back, and I turn to leave. I think to cut a line through the crowd, sharp with intention. Instead, I stagger half-steps into the mosh. Thump-thump, locked knees. Movement ripples across bodies and through mine, and I reel. (No sea legs.) I’m drowning in waters stirred by music: boiling sound waves. A glimmer in the distance like sun through a sea-storm. One step, two, three, thirty, and I’m at the stairs with a hand on the railing.Hauling myself off the dance floor I feel somethi...
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