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Submitted to Contest #283
I wake up twisting and turning in my bed. The morning light, faint and white, reaches for me from the window.No. Not another day. Not more pretending everything’s okay, or yelling at my little sister, or slamming the bedroom door when Mum tells me I have to eat, to go to school – all the crap she thinks I need to do. But she doesn’t know. Doesn’t understand. I'm not going anywhere. I'm staying here till Granny comes to get me. My eyes swell with tears. No way. I rub my hand down my face, un-scrunching it, and glare at the window. I’m no...
Submitted to Contest #120
Eddie sneezed. Dust motes flew around his head, refusing to settle. Sweat trickled under his arms, dampening his shirt. Unable to stand up straight, he struggled out of his jacket and threw it across the manhole cover beside him. He pulled another box, marked in Texta with ‘bedroom,’ across the wooden beams. Inside, his mother’s China dogs nestled in tissue paper. The paper rustled as brown and white and black spaniels, some with bows painted on their heads, appeared. His father had hated them. Balancing one on his palm, he ble...
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