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Schuy C

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2022

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The Final Lie

Goodbye. It rolls off the tip of my tongue, the familiarity of it burning my lips. I’ve said goodbye a million times over, but the pain has never gone both ways. I’ve always been the one to leave. I’ve always been the one to run, leaving pieces of myself behind wherever I went. And so, even though the word is familiar, the pain is not. It throbs in my chest, a dull, aching feeling that makes it hard to breathe. Part of me hurts for all of the people that I did this to, yet another part of me is grateful that when I ran, I often left this...

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Submitted to Contest #170

If you love someone, let them go. My life is in pages—planners, books, graphs, charts. Paper reminds me of the world right before a storm, quiet and heavy with impending chaos, like knowing what will happen before you turn the page. The delineating lines in my planner are a comfort, a reminder that I have a tomorrow, and a next week, and a next month. Every page is nearly the same, every day in existence because I made it so. I can’t die on Wednesday if I have to fold the laundry, right? Curves are somehow less formulaic than the lines of my...

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