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Submitted to Contest #52
For a while now, I’ve known death was coming for me. In a thousand lifetimes, I’ve contracted a thousand terminal illnesses. You start to recognize the signs early: weight loss, fatigue, pain, sallow skin. Even just a Bad Feeling, like something isn’t going right anymore. A lot of people think that’s just what getting old feels like. They’re right, but they’re wrong, too; that’s what the start of dying feels like. The beginning of the end. I’m trying the chemotherapy. I hate it, and some lives are so shitty to begin with, it’s a relie...
Submitted to Contest #51
I think I’m in love with you. The wind whips our skin chilly here on our hill under the stars, but your promises are warm and I am here with you—that’s enough, isn’t it? I don’t need anything else. But. The night is so rich, the air so restless; doesn’t it always make one say things that can only be said in the dark? The words pull themselves away from me, and I don’t have the will to stop them—“I’m afraid.”“What?” you say. Your teeth are so white in the dark. I pull you closer; I put my lips against your ear so I don’t need to sho...
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