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Submitted to Contest #60
I blink. She blinks. I take in a deep breath filling my lungs with radiation and dust and the smell of the crushed lavender in her hair. I want to say the right words. To say something that would convey the aching I feel underneath my ribs. The kind of feeling that both expands and restricts the lung's capacity for air in some contradictory trick of nature. I try to conjure the words - moving my face in patterns that feel familiar - but I haven’t spoken in what feels like years. Although I would still talk ...
Submitted to Contest #57
She writes slowly. Deliberately. Not quite methodically. The way one would write words no one will want to hear. And yet on her pen scratches. She pauses briefly to look through the glass and sighs. And although it is not her last breath it is certainly close. The way coldness lingers in a room after shutting the door on a winter storm. “Write” There it was again that little voice whispering. Was it in her head? Was that a normal part of the process? It sounded like a voice forgotten....
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