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Submitted to Contest #330
Hello, Addiction.Growing up with an abusive, alcoholic father, I made myself a promise early on: I would never drink.I didn’t whisper it or carve it into my memory like some dramatic revelation. It lived inside me quietly, the way children make private vows to protect themselves when adults fail to. A secret oath shaped out of fear and bruises, made in the silent spaces between slammed doors and sobbing breaths.Alcohol, to me, was the monster under the bed—except my monster lived in the kitchen, in a glass bottle that clinked like a warning ...
Submitted to Contest #331
Waiting is something most people learn to dislike, but for my childhood friend Tyson, waiting became a way of life—a quiet, steady rhythm that shaped the past thirty years. If blessings often come in pairs, his tended to arrive only after valleys of hardship, wrapped in disguises no one would willingly choose. Yet he carried his burdens with the kind of faith that feels old-fashioned, the kind you read about in stories rather than see lived out in real time.Tyson grew up as the son of a minister, tucked into the rhythms of Sunday sermons, We...
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