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Weekly Contest #351
Content note: This story contains themes of emotional distress and implied self-harm involving a child I got down on two skinny knees that morning, with shag carpet pressing into my skin and a musty, chemical type smell in the air. I prayed to God with the faith and desperation only a child could possess. I begged. I pleaded. I cried big, wet tears. I can still remember the way my chest ached from the heaving breaths.I asked God for one thing, crying out as loudly as I dared in the early morning silence of our house, “please God, oh please,...
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