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Weekly Contest #357
The inside of a bedroom door is a strange place to grow a second spine. Mine started with a blue pen cap. You came home from school, your backpack was still hanging from one shoulder. The smell of dust and cigarettes and heat stuck to your clothes. You closed me. The house exhaled. You pressed the cap into my skin, hard, harder, until the wood inflated. A tiny blister. You stared at it the way people stare at gravestones; the way sailors stare at lighthouses; the way starving dogs stare through bakery windows. Then, you left. The next day, a...
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