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Submitted to Contest #54
Trigger warning: suicide I had always enjoyed waking up in my college dorm. I am, in every sense of the expression, an early bird, and I was accustomed to waking before my roommate, or anyone on my level for that matter. This practice, if one can call it that, had given me a sense of superiority; it was as if the symphony of noises that marked the morning greeted me, and only me. I studied in New York, but not at a large private school in the city, our campus was nearly an hour away from Manhattan. So these aforementioned...
Submitted to Contest #35
I woke up with a start. It was around 4:00 in the morning and I knew my primitive sleeping patterns were not accustomed to such an early time. Some external spirit had taken hold of me and forced me awake. I jolted upright in my bed, sweating as I recall, and with a heartbeat so robust I heard the rhythm in my ears ( I know you had experienced this same cardiac anguish before, Eli, and I empathize with you now). Nevertheless, after a dour talking-to from my own reflection in my fogged and aged mirror, I managed to go through the motions...
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