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Submitted to Contest #200
I’ve begun again so many times it’s lost its catharsis. The first time I died I really did feel free. It had been a long time since I’d last pulled a stunt, sometime in high school to save myself from whatever embarrassing moment I had suffered. Now, my life has become a mesh of isolated moments interrupted with brief respites between acquaintances and work. In my quietest moments I begged for intimacy, but could not stand it in actuality. It wasn’t a violent fight, but a quiet shaping that forced me into such a pit. It was a slow death of e...
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