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Submitted to Contest #332
CW: Depiction of death, vehicular accident, graphic depiction of injury, emotional conflict I don’t remember how I got to where I am. Far as I can tell, I’ve always been laid out on my back like this, desperately trying to blink away the cobwebs from my eyelids. My vision is blurry, but I can almost distinguish a silhouette beginning to form, replacing light with the contour of a shadow.“Hey, didn’t you hear me?” the shadow said. “Your lease is up.”“Wh-huh?”“On this body, I mean.”“I… I don’t…”“Yeah, you gotta get out now.”Before I can pull e...
Submitted to Contest #333
I do not arrive with teeth or claws.I am as small as a breath fogging the mirror. I have no feet to cross thresholds, no hands to open doors with. I am a pattern wrapped in a protein, a thought without a thinker, waiting for a moment of warmth to lift me from one tide into another, and I only enter places I can squeeze through.They will later come to call me a curse. But I am carried by closeness. I am born in the hush after laughter, in the slow, trembling slide from mouth to skin. And I am nothing without my home.My home has a name. I firs...
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