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Weekly Contest #356
I shuffle around the house in a daze and pause before a photo of Cassie and me. The slow pooling of dread shivers up my skin. She looks so utterly carefree in this photo. Her arm is slung around my shoulder and we’re both wearing matching red-striped swimsuits, ones that we barely took off during the island summers. We were practically feral back then. Our parents worked during the day and we had free rein of the forest and the beach to live out the fantastical stories that we spun in our heads. I kept this photo, but I really should have hi...
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