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Weekly Contest #369
The cab drops me at the entrance of the long term care facility where my mother spent the last eleven years spewing vitriol on staff and patients alike. I climb out to spring air, fresh from last night’s rain and a mid-afternoon lawn mow. New green leaves dot the hedges and in the cluster of oak and maple overhead, robins sing. It’s a different story inside. The sandalwood and soft tones of the funeral home replaced by blips and clangs and ugly artwork hanging from institution green walls. Her room is stale, bedsheets stripped, mattres...
Weekly Contest #323
CW: Suicide or self harm, Physical violence, gore or abuse, Mental health Darkness is just beginning to weave its spell on the world when I climb out of bed. Gripping the banister, I make the slow trek down to the rear hall. Left foot, right foot, slide hand down the rail. Left foot, right foot, slide hand down the rail. The way a small child would do it.I pause halfway down, listening. Down the hall Marthe snores, and I relax. She worries that I sleep all day only because she assumes I also sleep all night.Thrust upon me by inconvenienced t...
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