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Molly Sickle

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Little Ribbons

Weekly Contest #54

I crawled up the stairs to my apartment, feeling the boundless nothing taking hold of me tighter with every step. I was hollowed out, empty, yet there was a tremendous heaviness that weighed me down. It was a feeling I had never experienced before. A piece of the world had just been ripped out, stolen away, so why are all my neighbors walking about as if nothing happened? I wanted to scream at them. How could they not feel it, this horrible grief that plagued me? Why me? Why her? I was so tired, so exhausted from the pain she left me with,...

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Sarah?

The cold gripped me, bit me, suffocated me. I found that I couldn’t escape it no matter how tightly I wove my arms around me. How long has it been since these Fall days have gotten below freezing? A few years? Nobody I’ve asked seems to know. When I left for work it was fine, this jacket would suffice, but now I wasn’t sure if I would make it the next few blocks to home. As I was staggering down the sidewalk, shielding my face from the slicing wind, my phone buzzed in my jacket. I harked back to when I had left work and swore that I had...

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