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Submitted to Contest #336
I’m writing short stories as a way to practice, take risks, and improve my craft. Any feedback or impressions would be genuinely appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to read. “It’s infuriating how, in one breath, you manage to degrade me and compliment me. You say you’re grateful you sent me abroad and that I didn’t come back knocked up or infected with rebellion.No indecency, you say.Yet in the same breath, compared to those who have done more for their parents, I am inferior.” “Have I shocked you?Does the sound of my protest disgust ...
Submitted to Contest #332
CW: Grief, death There is a blank second between sleeping and waking that exists to make the decision between life and oblivion. Today, Julia clung to it. For the nanosecond where she didn’t really exist, she was at peace. A calm that could not and would not last, but existed to give her a reprieve nonetheless. Its end was abrupt and extreme and too soon. Forever would be too soon.Today is the worst day of my life, she thought to herself. The only place, her mind, where she could voice her thoughts without scrutiny. Not that the rest of her ...
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