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Submitted to Contest #328
Trigger warning: self harm, mental health, sexual content A wave of nausea hit me like I was in a dilapidated boat. No one else existed, yet the darkness didn’t feel like a friend. The sea under me, livid, was desperate to swallow me whole. I’m pregnant with our fourth child and I can’t carry on. There’s another life cannibalizing my body. I dream of a cannon splitting my stomach wide open. I could live, brain fractured from body, neither valuable to anyone but me. Hollow but free. Then the incessant kicks return, reminding me that I was bri...
Submitted to Contest #327
They snatched Devi away in front of my eyes. The audacity! When they came for her, I must have seemed nonchalant. I didn’t hiss at the masked men. They pushed her against the wall and forced handcuffs on her. I figured Devi would just shake out of them. Pummel the assailants. I was wrong. Stand still, a voice in my head said. I kept my butt up in the air, tail flicking slowly from side to side, daring them to touch me. Do. Not. Lick. Yourself. A hairball tickled my throat. Don’t throw up. Be calm, be calm, BE CALM, it grew frantic. I silenc...
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