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Weekly Contest #345
Content Warning: Themes of neglect. Born looking up to the light teasing through a crack in our basement ceiling, created by my father’s angry foot, I convinced myself I was really looking up at him. Before I was born, he’d broken our floor when he’d stomped so hard that he fell through to the basement, breaking the wood of the floor and his body. Falling into what was meant to be separate but was now connected to the rest of our home forever. He’d once promised to patch the hole but with neither materials nor time, he managed only to ignor...
Weekly Contest #344
Content Warning: Abuse, injuries, neglect, fire, destruction, thoughts of death. DucklingBy Miriam Arick My mother’s eyes once shone with mischief. They were green with slit pupils, cat-like. I thought they were the most beautiful eyes in the world. I was her ‘Duckling,’ because I’d refuse to bathe without my cowboy-hat-clad rubber duckie. She’d carried dried lavender in her pockets because ‘the smell travels better than perfume.’ We managed fine on our own in our little fifth-floor apartment. I’d look out at San Francisco on nights my mot...
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