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Submitted to Contest #335
Lipstick Girl It is funny what cancer does to those it leaves behind. Mom and I spent two years so worried about how and when dad would die we forgot how to live. When it kills, cancer takes more than just one body, just one soul. So as I stood, trying to run out for routine team warmups, for a perfectly meaningless exhibition game, on a perfectly meaningless Friday afternoon, it was like I had forgotten how to breathe. For the first time ever, my Dad wasn’t in the stands. I would not be able to ground myself in his familiar gaze. And so not...
Submitted to Contest #330
The skin on my neck felt hot and sticky. The smell of teen body odor and years of lingering lunches all melded together to create one giant wall of public high school funk. The overload hit me hard, and I blacked out for a second in the school hallway. People think southern California can’t get hot because it’s close to the ocean, but it can. We’re not all ocean breezeway adjacent, so when the Santa Ana winds come in, and you’re surrounded by asphalt, concrete and poverty, it gets hot. And it’s even hotter in overcrowded, underfunded city sc...
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