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Weekly Contest #286
Content warning: suicidal ideation, child loss MOURNING FIREby S. T. Seitz Calida yearns to be the peony in her garden, the one being strangled by bindweed. How much easier it would be to give up and lay her head on the ground the way that plump bloom rests on the soil. Easier than finding the strength to keep breathing, to keep moving. To put on her gardening gloves and cut back those choking vines before they take over her yard. What would be the point, anyway? If she pulls those ugly serpent weeds, they’ll just grow back. Even if she di...
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