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Submitted to Contest #336
The Path I raced home from class, pretending the traffic lights mattered more than the house waiting for me. Five points for green. Minus ten for red. The train was a guaranteed loss. I kept a running tally in my head, the numbers clicking forward like a slot machine that might pay out calm if I won.If I focused hard enough on the math, I didn’t have to think about what came next.The game started months ago, sometime after I moved in. Back when I still believed that if I kept things organized—emotionally, spatially, internally—I could preven...
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